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How Targeted Cancer Drugs Disrupt the Cell Cycle

PLOS: DNA Science

I had the privilege to meet one of the first people to receive Gleevec, which I wrote about for Bioethics Today in 2006. She chronicled her journey in Glamour and in My So-Called Normal Life, a book published in 2005. I visited Erin Zammett Ruddy at the headquarters of Glamour magazine in Manhattan, where she was an editor.

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Navigating the neuroscientific landscape with Dr Judy Illes

Drug Target Review

Her recent books, a series called Developments in Neuroethics and Bioethics , focus on pain, global mental health, neurotechnology, transnational laws, environmental neuroethics, neurodevelopment, and neuroAI. Dr Illes was awarded the Order of Canada, the country’s highest recognition of its citizens, in 2017.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

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Link 📙 Courses * = Recommended What is Synthetic Biology? Hall The Eighth Day of Creation , by Horace Freeland Judson Regenesis , by George Church & Ed Regis The Genesis Machine , by Amy Webb & Andrew Hessel The Gene: An Intimate History , by Siddhartha Mukherjee Life at the Speed of Light , by J.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

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Link 📙 Courses * = Recommended What is Synthetic Biology? Hall The Eighth Day of Creation , by Horace Freeland Judson Regenesis , by George Church & Ed Regis The Genesis Machine , by Amy Webb & Andrew Hessel The Gene: An Intimate History , by Siddhartha Mukherjee Life at the Speed of Light , by J.

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