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Building better brain models for Parkinson’s disease and beyond

Drug Target Review

Turning this tide, Professor Jens Christian Schwamborn, a cell biology expert at the University of Luxembourg and co-founder of OrganoTherapeutics , is leading a groundbreaking effort to transform our understanding and treatment of these debilitating diseases.

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The future of mRNA biology and AI convergence

Drug Target Review

There must be something different in those diseased cells, some dysregulated pathway that is causing that disease phenotype. And since mRNA biology is like the highway of cell biology, it would likely be visible there. We are talking 2013 here so that was a decade ago.

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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

Codon

only issued “the strongest ‘black box’ warning” against the drug in 2013. 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? Nobody had an answer.

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Biology is a Burrito

Codon

I felt like a scientist for the first time, and I began to grasp the “numbers of biology” (many calculations in this essay come from that course and another textbook, Cell Biology by the Numbers.) Without mathematics, I learned, biology is naked; we can only comprehend it at arm's length. From Ron Milo (2013).

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Neurobiology & Organismal Biology

Broad Institute

After that, he held positions as Postdoctoral Research Associate and then Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University before he joined HMS and BWH in 2013. in molecular and cell biology and biochemistry from the University of Oxford.

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What is Protein Nitration? | BMG LABTECH

BMG Labtech

Protein nitration assays are widely used in many research areas including but not limited to biochemistry , biotechnology , cell biology , microbiology , and molecular biology. Nitration of Hsp90 induces cell death. 2013 Mar 19;110(12):E1102-11. Epub 2013 Mar 4. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1215177110.

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Obstacles and innovations of macrocyclic drug development

Drug Target Review

She has a PhD in Microbiology and Cell Biology from the University of Illinois, followed by work in biochemistry as a post-doctoral fellow at UCSF. Drug Discovery Today , 18(13-14):659666, 2013. Cell , 185(19):35203532, 2022. Ajay N Jain Ajay is VP of Research for the Optibrium s BioPharmics Division. Yusof I, Segall MD.