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Lipid nanoparticles and mRNA used to treat hereditary blindness

Drug Discovery World

Oregon State University College of Pharmacy scientists have shown that lipid nanoparticles and messenger RNA could treat blindness associated with a rare genetic condition. . It also doesn’t do fantastically well in continuing to express the enzymes the editing tool uses as molecular scissors to make cuts in the DNA to be edited.

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Dr. Lolettima O. Johnson Celebrated for Dedication to the Field of Medicine

The Pharma Data

Doctor Johnson has had an inspiring career that encompasses several aspects of the pharmacy industry. Doctor Johnson aspires to incorporate the latest technologies available in healthcare to care for her patients. Subsequently, she decided to pursue a higher education in pharmacology following her high school graduation.

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#WhyIScience Q&A: A biochemist uses mass spectrometry to find proteins involved in cancer

Broad Institute

When Moe Haines first moved from Beirut, Lebanon to the United States for college, his goal was to earn a degree in pharmacy. He worked as a drug development research associate at Sanofi and then joined the chemical biology and proteomics group of a small startup in Cambridge. That’s how I ended up majoring in biochemistry.

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Who are the AACR Scientific Achievement Award winners?

Drug Discovery World

He is being recognised for his celebrated contributions to the understanding and targeting of pancreas cancer metastasis, including work that has assisted with the development of minnelide, a pro-drug of triptolide for the treatment of pancreas and gastrointestinal cancers that is currently in Phase II clinical trials.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-048 The Virus that Cures It’s been over 25 years since the science magazine Discover first ran an extraordinary article about how a long-forgotten medical treatment, used in the former Soviet country of Georgia, could save us from the growing threat of untreatable, drug-resistant infections.

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

Elrig

Webinar | Ai At The Frontier: Empowering Early Career Professionals In Drug Discovery WEBINAR – ARE YOU CURIOUS ABOUT THE CUTTING-EDGE INTERSECTION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DRUG DISCOVERY? Are you curious about the cutting-edge intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Drug Discovery?

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Which Arthritis Painkiller Works the Fastest?

The Pharma Data

I’ll also show you why their top scientists are now saying that this breakthrough treatment could replace traditional medical approaches for a wide range of painful conditions… What this means is that you can now say goodbye to your daily aches and pains without harmful drugs or having to resort to painful surgery. he continued.