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Battling antibiotic resistance in the lab and the clinic

Broad Institute

He majored in biological chemistry at the University of Chicago and during his junior year, he had a fortuitous meeting with his academic advisor about finding a student research position that would let him dive more deeply into the molecular details of biological systems.

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Mediating BRAF-mutant melanoma resistance

Drug Target Review

Dr Alani also directs a clinical program at Boston Medical Center focused on patients with melanoma and other high-risk skin cancers and has been recognized as a 2024 Boston Magazine and Castle Connolly Top Doctor. Dr Alani received her M.D. degree with Honors and Distinction in Research from the University of Michigan.

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Women in Stem with Joanne Kanaan

Drug Target Review

When choosing my bachelor’s degree, the choice was between pursuing a career in biology or in computer science. Biology won that battle, and I pursued a bachelor’s and master’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology.

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F. William Studier receives the 2024 Merkin Prize in ceremony at the Broad Institute for developing technology used to produce millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines

Broad Institute

HPN develops and manages coordinated, patient-doctor centric, integrated health care systems that offer some of the strongest solutions for the future of health, care, and cost in the United States. He has a humble, self-effacing demeanor, and yet he is great at pushing people to make bold bets and to try to make the impossible possible."

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Welcome to Asimov Press

Codon

Molecular biology, as the field came to be called 3 , pushed biology from an object of study, driven forward by gentleman scientists and precocious country clergymen, into a tool with which to solve urgent problems. Semmelweis, considered arrogant by senior doctors, was ostracized and eventually dismissed from his post.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

Regulators traditionally want to see a single, stable, well-characterized drug before giving the green light for it to be tested in a clinical trial, not dozens of different viruses; let alone ones that are best found in unappealing places like sewage , hospital waste, or bird poop. 4 But the same barriers still exist today.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

in Current Biology. There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. ” Wellcome Collection , London I wrapped up my series on “30 Days of Great Biology Papers.” The black bars denote untreated eyes, and the gray bars denote treated eyes. From McKyton et al.