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MiR?34 by targeting p53 induces apoptosis and DNA damage in paclitaxel?resistant human oral squamous carcinoma cells

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

The chemosensitive effects of miR-34 is mediated through increasing DNA damage and apoptosis in a p53 depended manner. The present study aimed to evaluate the effects of miR-34 restoration in OECM-1 oral cancer resistant to paclitaxel (OECM-1/PTX) and its underlying mechanisms through p53-mediated DNA damage and apoptosis.

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SARS-CoV-2: advancing the production of the ACE2 protein

Drug Target Review

Researchers from Columbia University and the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have elucidated a method to produce large quantities of the receptor that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein uses to bind to the surface of human cells.

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A therapy candidate for fatal prion diseases turns off disease-causing gene

Broad Institute

By Greta Friar, Whitehead Institute June 27, 2024 Images of a mouse brain show the effect of a technology called CHARM in turning off the expression of a gene in the brain. Previous research has shown that as little as 21 percent elimination of the protein can improve symptoms. Credit: Neumann EN, Bertozzi TM, et al.

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Marvin Caruthers receives inaugural Merkin Prize in ceremony at the Broad Institute for DNA synthesis technology

Broad Institute

Related links Merkin Prize Inaugural Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to Dr. Marvin Caruthers for developing technology that efficiently synthesizes DNA The inaugural Richard N. Caruthers was announced as the winner in June for his development, in 1981, of an efficient, automated technology for synthesizing DNA.

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What Biology Can Learn from Physics

Codon

As money poured into wartime research programs, physics shifted from a field of brilliant individuals to one of well-managed teams. Biology has had a few large-scale research programs, such as the Human Genome Project , but nowhere near the same number as physics. For one, biology research is inherently broad.

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Addressing increasingly resistant drugs by infectious agents

Drug Target Review

Infectious agents’ resistance was described at the European Union Research Parliament “as a widespread, multifaceted phenomenon that affects both living things and the environment, as well as their capacity to survive in the presence of drugs intended to either kill or inactivate them.”

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What Biology Can Learn from Physics

Codon

As money poured into wartime research programs, physics shifted from a field of brilliant individuals to one of well-managed teams. Biology has had a few large-scale research programs, such as the Human Genome Project , but nowhere near the same number as physics. For one, biology research is inherently broad.