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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

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. 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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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.,