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New molecular insights on medical cannabis

Drug Target Review

Autotaxin has lysophospholipase D activity leading to tumor cell growth and motility by lysophosphatidic acid production. The Journal of Cell Biology. 2011 Jul 14;54(13):4619–26. Umezu-Goto M, Kishi Y, Taira A, et al. 2002 Jul 22;158(2):227–33. Valdés-Rives SA, González-Arenas A. Mediators of Inflammation. 2017;2017:1–15.

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A research team searches for every gene that helps tumors evade immunotherapy

Broad Institute

By Allessandra DiCorato October 11, 2023 In 2011, Robert Manguso was working in a cell biology lab when his mother was diagnosed with Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and aggressive skin cancer. When I began my PhD I completely switched my focus, and I haven’t looked back,” said Manguso.

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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

Codon

When Louis Miller, now Chief of Malaria Cell Biology at the NIH, attended a malaria conference in Shanghai in 2008, he asked: Who discovered artemisinin? Miller and Su published an article on Tu’s story in Cell in 2011. Nobody had an answer.

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A Ray of Molecular Beauty from Cryo-EM

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

While researchers had solved the structure of a GPCR bound to another class of G proteins, known as stimulatory G proteins (G s ) in 2011[3], the image you see above represents the first such glimpse of a GPCR bound to any G i protein. 2011 Jul 19;477(7366):549-55.

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A Defense of Peer Review

Codon

Another example of an erroneous “big idea” concerns data reported in 2011 by researchers at CERN, purporting to show neutrinos (a kind of subatomic particle) traveling faster than light. Enormous amounts of resources were wasted chasing LK-99 that could have been saved by heeding a council of experts.

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TACACICLIB, AUR-102, AURIGENE

New Drug Approvals

As such, it has been proposed that inhibiting CDK7 would provide a potent means of inhibiting cell cycle progression, which may be especially relevant given that there is compelling evidence from gene knockout studies in mice for lack of an absolute requirement for CDK2, CDK4 and CDK6 for the cell cycle at least in most cell types (M alumbres et al.,

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

Codon

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2009). Link The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020 , by Meng F. & Link Synthetic biology in mammalian cells: next generation research tools and therapeutics , by Lienert F. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2014). Nature (2011).

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