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Advancing and Safeguarding Clinical Research for a Better Tomorrow

Advarra

Innovations in fields such as immunotherapy, cancer and chronic diseases owe their existence to clinical trials, which judiciously test and evaluate safety and efficacy. Without clinical research, these medical breakthroughs would remain out of reach for patients.

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Navigating the neuroscientific landscape with Dr Judy Illes

Drug Target Review

On the neurologic side, there are findings about neurotoxins and environmental contaminants showing correlations with a variety of neurologic diseases across the lifespan from children to adults. On the mental health side, there is anxiety around climate change – Eco-Anxiety. In the past, we to dismissed traditional forms of belief systems.

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Nixing the Newborn Screening Advisory Committee Is Ill-Advised

PLOS: DNA Science

Next month, families affected by the rare genetic disease metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) will meet in Washington. Because Calliope Joy didn’t have an older sibling with the disease, her initial symptoms were confusing. For example, only a dozen states screen for Krabbe Disease , which is similar to MLD.

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How Targeted Cancer Drugs Disrupt the Cell Cycle

PLOS: DNA Science

Science journalists might better communicate drug mechanisms to consumers. 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. It is a classic in medical science.

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Equity + Ethical, Legal, Social Implications in Biomedicine Seminar Series

Broad Institute

This panel will highlight the urgent need for greater investment in a broader range of health conditions that disproportionately impact, uniquely affect, or present differently in women, including pregnancy, polycystic ovary syndrome, endometriosis, menopause, and cardiovascular disease.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

Codon

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models (2008). Science (2018). Science (2017). Science (2010). Science (2016). Science (2023). Politics and the Life Sciences (2009). Science (2014). Trends in Plant Science (2015). Science (2022). Artificial Life (2018). & Gersbach C.A.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

Codon

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models (2008). Science (2018). Science (2017). Science (2010). Science (2016). Science (2023). Politics and the Life Sciences (2009). Science (2014). Link Artificial Gene Regulatory Networks—A Review , by Cussat-Blanc S. Artificial Life (2018). PNAS (2008).

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