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Eloxx Pharmaceuticals to Report Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results and Provide Business Update on November 5, 2020

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is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel RNA-modulating drug candidates (designed to be eukaryotic ribosomal selective glycosides) that are formulated to treat rare and ultra-rare premature stop codon diseases. Premature stop codons are point mutations that disrupt protein synthesis from messenger RNA.

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Beyond Steel Tanks

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Credit: Universität Würzburg Archives His key insight hinged upon the fact that living cells are essentially bags of liquid filled with enzymes, or proteins that speed up chemical reactions. Water accounts for 70 percent of a bacterium by mass; the other 30 percent includes everything else: proteins, RNA, DNA, lipids, and so on.

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Codon Digest: Bacteria Resist Every Virus

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Basic Science A trailing ribosome speeds up RNA polymerase at the expense of transcript fidelity via force and allostery. Ribozyme-mediated RNA synthesis and replication in a model Hadean microenvironment. Peroxisomal metabolic coupling improves fatty alcohol production from sole methanol in yeast. Szymczak P. Krypotou E.

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