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How Targeted Cancer Drugs Disrupt the Cell Cycle

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Cancer cells make too much survivin, with levels increasing as the disease spreads and becomes more aggressive. It delayed disease progression and more than doubled survival time, adding 17 months. I had the privilege to meet one of the first people to receive Gleevec, which I wrote about for Bioethics Today in 2006.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

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Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models (2008). Link Artificial Gene Regulatory Networks—A Review , by Cussat-Blanc S. Artificial Life (2018). Link Mathematical modeling and synthetic biology , by Chandran D. Link 📙 Courses * = Recommended What is Synthetic Biology?

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

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Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models (2008). Link Artificial Gene Regulatory Networks—A Review , by Cussat-Blanc S. Artificial Life (2018). Link Mathematical modeling and synthetic biology , by Chandran D. Link 📙 Courses * = Recommended What is Synthetic Biology?

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