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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

Codon

When her father gave Tu the name “Youyou,” he started with characters from the Chinese classic Book of Odes: “The deer bleat: ‘yōu yōu’ while eating wild ‘hāo’” (呦呦鹿鸣,食野之蒿). falciparum. Nobody had an answer.

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What Limits a Genome’s Size?

Codon

Credit: Oriane Hidalgo Per the book Cell Biology by the Numbers , each base pair of DNA occupies 1 nm 3 of space. So it was with some incredulity that I sat down, pulled out a scratch piece of paper, and jotted down some estimates.

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Fast Biology

Codon

I first encountered Von Baer’s thought experiment in Richard Fisher’s book, The Long View. Credit: Rob Phillips and Ron Milo, Cell Biology by the Numbers. The Millennium Man’s experience would be the opposite; our world would feel impossibly quick. ” I share Fisher’s views on the Millenium Man.

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First Patient Dosed in Monalizumab Phase 3 Clinical Trial Triggers $50M Payment From AstraZeneca

The Pharma Data

AstraZeneca will book all sales revenue and will pay Innate low double-digit to mid-teen percentage royalties on net sales worldwide except in Europe where Innate Pharma will receive 50% share of the profits and losses in the territory.

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Codon Digest: Vaccine Printer Go Brrrrr!

Codon

Read Stem cells were induced to form insulin-secreting pancreas cells and then transplanted into diabetic mice, where they successfully restored glucose levels. Nature Cell Biology. A new paper engineers a communication network between cells using DNA instead. Tuomas Haarnoja on ArXiv. ” The New York Times.

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Codon Digest: Vaccine Printer Go Brrrrr!

Codon

Read Stem cells were induced to form insulin-secreting pancreas cells and then transplanted into diabetic mice, where they successfully restored glucose levels. Nature Cell Biology. A new paper engineers a communication network between cells using DNA instead. Tuomas Haarnoja on ArXiv. ” The New York Times.

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Biology is a Burrito

Codon

I felt like a scientist for the first time, and I began to grasp the “numbers of biology” (many calculations in this essay come from that course and another textbook, Cell Biology by the Numbers.) Without mathematics, I learned, biology is naked; we can only comprehend it at arm's length.

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