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Bayer establishes Bioethics Council

The Pharma Data

The Bioethics Council will maintain regular dialogue with Bayer leadership on the implementation and long-term development of Bayer’s Bioethics Policy. The Bioethics Council will maintain regular dialogue with Bayer leadership on the implementation and long-term development of Bayer’s Bioethics Policy. “I

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BetterLife’s Recent Acquisition: Taking LSD from Experimental to a Major Therapeutic Application

The Pharma Data

Authors of “ An ethical exploration of barriers to research on controlled drugs ” in the American Journal of Bioethics have been quoted stating, “the classification of drugs as Schedule I amounts to an unsurmountable barrier to research.”

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How Targeted Cancer Drugs Disrupt the Cell Cycle

PLOS: DNA Science

Throughout the cell cycle, cyclin and kinase proteins pair and part in ways that activate the genes whose products carry out mitosis. I had the privilege to meet one of the first people to receive Gleevec, which I wrote about for Bioethics Today in 2006. A connective tissue cell from a fetus will divide about 50 more times.

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Deliberate Dysentery

Codon

But overall, the track record for the past 40 years, since the revolution in bioethics and the imposition of modern ethical controls on human subject research, suggests that the risk profile for challenge trials is often much lower than other acts of medical altruism, such as kidney donation. So that's a drawback.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

Codon

Link DNA Cost and Productivity Data, aka "Carlson Curves" , by Carlson R. Link An integrated cell-free metabolic platform for protein production and synthetic biology , by Jewett M.C. Link Production of the antimalarial drug precursor artemisinic acid in engineered yeast , by Ro D-K. Nature Biotechnology (2009). Nature (2017).

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

Codon

Link DNA Cost and Productivity Data, aka "Carlson Curves" , by Carlson R. Link An integrated cell-free metabolic platform for protein production and synthetic biology , by Jewett M.C. Link Production of the antimalarial drug precursor artemisinic acid in engineered yeast , by Ro D-K. Nature Biotechnology (2009). Nature (2017).

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