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David Liu receives Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Broad Institute

In 2013, Broad founding director Eric S. During his doctoral research at University of California Berkeley, Liu initiated the first general effort to expand the genetic code in living cells. The Breakthrough Prize is one of the worlds most important science awards. Lander was among the inaugural recipients of the prize.

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It Finally Happened – FDA’s OPDP Issues First Letter of 2023

Eye on FDA

But the numbers began to dwindle and 2013 was the last time the office even issued 12 letters within a year (it did 23 that year). Enforcement Track Record – Looking all the way back to 1998, FDA issued a peak of 156 Untitled or Warning Letters in a single year (the prior year it had issued 139).

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After Heart Attack, Pot Smoking Raises Post-Op Dangers

The Pharma Data

For their study, Yoo and his team analyzed data from a statewide registry of more than 113,000 patients in Michigan who had angioplasty between January 2013 and October 2016. Heart patients might instead want to lay off pot, Yoo said, or at least make sure doctors know they use marijuana if they wind up needing another procedure.

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What Exercise Regimen Works Best to Ease Lower Back Pain?

The Pharma Data

Before the study began in December 2013, all participants had struggled with lower back pain for at least a year. ” As a result, he added, many doctors advise patients to rest for the short term and then to begin exercising to help the muscles. Participants, who ranged in age from 18 to 60, were randomly divided into two groups.

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AbbVie to Highlight Its Leadership in Movement Disorders at the.

The Pharma Data

Overview of the Population of Patients with Advanced Parkinson’s Disease (aPD) Initiating Therapy with Levodopa-Carbidopa Intestinal Gel (LCIG): POMPE-PARK Study on French Health Insurance Data (2013-2017). Tell your doctor if you have any breathing-related problems. Tell your doctor if you have any breathing-related problems.

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Rap Music Is Putting Mental Health in the Spotlight

The Pharma Data

. “I think anyone who’s been a fan of rap music across the last two decades — myself included — had a feeling this was happening,” said study author Alex Kresovich, a doctoral fellow in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Women in Stem with Dr Emily Leproust

Drug Target Review

Twist was officially founded in 2013. I originally wanted to be a doctor but that’s a second-tier track in France. I was fundraising with my two co-founders and one of the venture capital investors who we met with said that we needed a male CEO with gray hair. At that time synesthetic biology wasn’t cool. It was right after synbio 1.0

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