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The Dawn of Molecular Genetics: A Glimpse of History in a Textbook from 1952

PLOS: DNA Science

Treasure from 1952, Just Before Watson and Crick’s Paper A pile of old biology books to me is like a toy store to a child. I went to Shaun’s the next morning, flipped through a few books, and without hesitation loaded them all into the trunk of my car. Published by W.H. Beautiful black and white sketches adorn the pages.

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Topical Gene Therapy FDA-Approved for Severe Skin Disease, Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa

PLOS: DNA Science

My now decade-old book The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy who Saved It , told the stories of children who had received one-time deliveries of working copies of genes, to compensate for their mutations. Peter Marinkovich, MD, director of the Blistering Disease Clinic at Stanford Health Care, calls DEB a devastating disease.

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The Forgotten Pandemic

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The Most Deadly Infectious Disease “Each successive episode of bleeding left him weaker than before,” wrote Mary Doria Russell of Doc Holliday, the gunslinging gambler, in her eponymous book, Doc. Published in 1971, the book contains unsparing descriptions of Holliday’s deteriorating medical condition.

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Stop Constipation with Natural Remedies

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constipation that many medical doctors do not know. The Colon Diseases You Develop When. Many doctors don’t believe having one or two bowel movements per day is important. At MedicineNet.Com, “We Bring Doctor’s. ” Irregular Bowel Movements Will Cause Disease. doctor won’t even tell you this.

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An industry leader’s perspective on the complexity of scientific data

Drug Target Review

Janette Thomas leads a small biotech company (Five Alarm Bio) 1 on a mission to develop drugs targeting the chronic diseases associated with ageing. Her company’s focus includes dementia, muscle wasting, and chronic wounds – diseases that disproportionately affect the elderly. Reference 1 Five Alarm Bio. cited 2024 Oct 17].

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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

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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.

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Fast Shingles Cure – The #1 Shingles Treatment Method Available

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Based on all the research I’ve done, I’ve found that 95% of the people who use the. Fast Shingles Cure system are symptom-free within 72 hours, while traditionally. it can take weeks or months if you follow your doctors procedure. the doctor, and turns out that it was. The medicine the doctor gave.