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A New Type of Bookworm: Bringing Patient Perspectives Into the Classroom?

KIF1A

The central scientific goal for this class was to “[conduct] authentic research that studies the consequences of disease-related mutations in a neuronal kinesin (KIF1A), by using behavioral, genetic, and cell biological tools to assay how KIF1A mutations affect C. These are our future doctors. elegans neurons”. Our future scientists.

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Women in Stem with Dr Sara Sangha

Drug Target Review

Sara holds a bachelor’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences and a PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the University of California, Irvine and completed her post-doctoral fellowship training in cardiovascular cell biology from the Lerner Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

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The promise of 3A5C7 mAb in the treatment of morphine tolerance

Drug Target Review

About the author Dr Jia-Jia Zhang, Doctoral candidate Dr Jia-Jia Zhang is a doctoral candidate at the National Translational Science Center for Molecular Medicine & Department of Cell Biology, Fourth Military Medical University, and her research interest is the development of therapeutical antibodies to treat human disease.

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Women in Stem with Vicky Marsh Durban

Drug Target Review

As an undergraduate and as a doctoral candidate, I studied intestinal biology in a lab that used mostly animal models, because they were the only appropriate models that were available at the time. There were no relevant in vitro cell models available to answer the questions that we were asking.

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AI At The Frontier: Empowering Early Career Professionals In Drug Discovery

Elrig

She is currently a Senior drug discovery scientist working across Cell Engineering, Cell Biology and Functional Genomics teams, using CRISPR/Cas9 and Next Generation Sequencing for target identification, target validation and drug development in the oncology disease area.

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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

Codon

After four years of a national effort to “ scientize Chinese medicine ” ( zhongyi kexuehua ), which designated Chinese doctors to study Western biomedicine, Mao Zedong reversed course in 1954, setting a new priority of “ Western doctors study Chinese medicine ( xiyi xuexi zhongyi ).” Nobody had an answer.

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A research team searches for every gene that helps tumors evade immunotherapy

Broad Institute

By Allessandra DiCorato October 11, 2023 In 2011, Robert Manguso was working in a cell biology lab when his mother was diagnosed with Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and aggressive skin cancer. When I began my PhD I completely switched my focus, and I haven’t looked back,” said Manguso.

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