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Gene editing extends lifespan in mouse model of prion disease

Broad Institute

A long-awaited strategy Vallabh and Minikel have been studying prion disease since 2012, after Vallabhs mother passed away from a form of the disease called fatal familial insomnia and Vallabh found out that she had inherited the disease-causing mutation. This has the potential to be a really promising strategy.

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Mining Ring Systems in Molecules for Fun and Profit

Practical Cheminformatics

In addition, the core code for extracting ring systems from molecules has been incorporated into the latest version of my pip installable useful_rdkit_utils package. In a 2012 paper, Peter showed how molecular descriptors can be used to characterize ring systems and perform similarity searches. Mühlbacher, J., Schuffenhauer, A., &

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Could Propecia Up Young Men’s Suicide Risk?

The Pharma Data

Information from the World Health Organization indicates that over the past 10 years, reports of suicidal ideation among young men using the drug have increased, rising significantly after 2012, the researchers said. No such warning is on the package insert now. ” Traish also thinks that the U.S. 11 in JAMA Dermatology.

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Article Periodic Thank You EU executive consults on proposed update to PIC chemical lists

Agency IQ

EU executive consults on proposed update to PIC chemical lists Regulation (EU) 649/2012 (PIC Regulation) is the main act on the export and import of hazardous chemicals between the European Union and third countries. Chemical CAS RN (or EC No.)

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Article Periodic Thank You An introduction to EU chemicals guidance

Agency IQ

The good news: ECHA offers a treasure trove of online guidance on Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP), and other chemicals legislation, as well as other reference tools to help industry keep products in compliance.

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Analysis Chemical Thank You Explainer: carcinogen classification in the E.U., U.S., and internationally

Agency IQ

This framework is anchored in the Classification, Labeling, and Packaging Regulation (CLP) (1272/2008/EC), the bloc’s definitive legislation on classifying substances and mixtures. HazCom 2012 currently uses the third revised edition of the GHS, though in February 2021 OSHA proposed upgrading to newer versions. European Union The E.U.

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Getting Inside the Mind of the Medicinal Chemist with Machine Learning

Practical Cheminformatics

Currently, the most widely used approach for evaluating drug-likeness is the QED method , published by Andrew Hopkins and coworkers at Pfizer in 2012. In this case, I used the BMS filters from the rd_filters package. REOS Molecules - 2000 molecules from the ChEMBL database that failed a wide range of functional group filters.