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Advanced 3D cell-based technologies

Drug Target Review

In addition, these models at the current state are better for short term tests, over a week or two and cannot be used for acquiring data from long term drug exposures. Miniature organs as test beds for new drugs Organoids are miniature human organs with clusters of cells derived from stem cells and mimic specific tissues.

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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

Codon

Department of Defense administered mefloquine, the synthetic drug developed at Walter Reed in the U.S., only issued “the strongest ‘black box’ warning” against the drug in 2013. have been poured into replicating work already done” by Chinese scientists decades ago. Nobody had an answer.

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Precision Medicine in the Genomic Era

DrugBank

The general notion is that patients should be viewed individually, rather than strictly as members of some larger general population, and that their specific genetic background, environment, and lifestyle choices should be considered throughout drug development to the point of treatment and continuing patient care. 12 , 713230 (2021).

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