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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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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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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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Levers for Biological Progress

Codon

Molecular biology has only been around for about 80 years, and tools to study biomolecules (such as DNA and RNA sequencing, or proteomics) have only existed for about half of that time. We are in the absolute infancy of molecular and cell biology, and this means there’s a lot of stuff we still don’t understand.

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Teaching immune cells how to kill

SugarCone Biotech

Learnings regarding immune geography and cell:cell contact are increasingly important as we consider how best to advance cell therapies for diverse hematologic malignancies and solid tumors ( www.aletabio.com ). Not by coincidence the list overlaps with the phases of the tumor-immunity cycle ( Chen & Mellman, 2013 ).

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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). PNAS (2013).

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