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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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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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Marquis Who’s Who Honors David R. Elmaleh, PhD, with Inclusion in Who’s Who in the World

The Pharma Data

Elmaleh’s research has yielded compounds with potential in oncology, heart disease and neurodegenerative conditions, BOSTON, MA, October 23, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ — Marquis Who’s Who, the world’s premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to honor David.

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Beyond the pill | Moving towards value-added services

Altus Drug Development

A study performed on physicians’ interpretations of heart disease symptoms shows that, under the current methodology, young women with health conditions are at a higher risk of being misdiagnosed. A value-added service strategy integrates the needs of doctors and patients into the research and development process.

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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.

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You FDA’s nonprescription advisors find no efficacy for phenylephrine

Agency IQ

The monographs functioned as rule books for specific classes of OTC drugs, describing active ingredients, doses, indications, labeling and tests requires for covered OTC products to be generally recognized as safe and effective (GRASE). To reach all consumers, the advisors want the agency to execute a comprehensive strategy.

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