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Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to F. William Studier for development of widely used protein- and RNA-production platform

Broad Institute

“Bill Studier’s development of T7 phage RNA polymerase for use in preparing RNA templates for multiple uses in research labs worldwide has been a truly revolutionary technical advance for the entire field of molecular biology,” said Joan Steitz, the Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University.

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The role of STRIs in cancer

Drug Target Review

a biopharmaceutical company, since February 2015. Dr Worland was an NIH postdoctoral fellow in molecular biology at Harvard University and completed a Ph.D. Prior to Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Dr Worland was Vice President and Head of Antiviral Research at Pfizer Inc. and Vice President at WarnerLambert Co.,

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Chinese Government Arrests GenScript and Legend Biotech Founder for Smuggling

The Pharma Data

Zhang, who founded Legend Biotech in 2015 as a subsidiary of parent company GenScript, a company he also co-founded, had been under residential surveillance in connection with an investigation by the Customs Anti-Smuggling Department of Zhenjiang in China since Sept. as a director of molecular biology.

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The essential role of recombinant phage display antibody libraries

Drug Target Review

2015 May;521(7552):274–6. Methods in Molecular Biology. Journal of Molecular Biology. FDA no longer needs to require animal tests before human drug trials [Internet]. www.science.org. Available from: [link] ‌Baker M. Reproducibility crisis: Blame it on the antibodies. Bradbury ARM, Trinklein ND, Thie H, et al.

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Advancing CAR-T therapy: how CD5 modulation is shaping cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

He holds multiple utility and design patents for scientific technologies and has authored various peer-reviewed manuscripts in the fields of bacteriology, virology, immunology, molecular biology, and cancer immunotherapy.

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A quiet revolution in the world of proteomics

DrugBaron

In 2015, Methuselah Health was founded to investigate the role of proteome instability during ageing, and the extent to which the instability of specific proteins might underlie development of age-related diseases – a concept that arose from the ground-breaking work of Professor Miro Radman (which DrugBaron highlighted previously).

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Amgen And MBC BioLabs Announce Winners Of The Amgen Golden Ticket

The Pharma Data

“When Amgen first partnered with us in 2015, MBC BioLabs was a single site in San Francisco hosting 40 companies. Each site has a complete molecular biology core facility that allows companies to do experiments on day one, not year one.