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Women in Stem with Vicky Marsh Durban

Drug Target Review

As an undergraduate and as a doctoral candidate, I studied intestinal biology in a lab that used mostly animal models, because they were the only appropriate models that were available at the time. There were no relevant in vitro cell models available to answer the questions that we were asking.

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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. They are used to treat cancers including melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer, but work only for a small fraction of patients.

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A Defense of Peer Review

Codon

Share Asimov Press For example, one might argue that peer review is worse in medicine because reviews are largely performed by overworked doctors with limited time. In 2014, researchers prematurely announced that they had detected “echoes” of gravitational waves from the Big Bang.

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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. Nature Chemical Biology , 10(9):696698, 2014. Ajay N Jain Ajay is VP of Research for the Optibrium s BioPharmics Division. Biochemical Journal , 474(7):11091125, 2017.