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Scaling Phage Therapy

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Tom Ireland writes about the companies and technologies that are reimagining phage therapy. Soon after its publication, scientists, journalists, and investors were revisiting ‘phage therapy’ as a promising alternative to our failing antibiotics. Read it on our website here. Illustration by David S. Fast forward to 2023.

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Biopharma Update on the Novel Coronavirus: October 20

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Testing Therapies, Antivirals and Vaccines. For diseases that are very deadly without reliable therapies, it is considered unethical and very dangerous. In several studies , Gilead Sciences ’ remdesivir has shown that it can decrease the hospital stays of COVID-19 patients. They will require regulatory and ethical approval.

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Deliberate Dysentery

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You can do a challenge trial with deadly diseases, but you need a “rescue therapy.” With hepatitis C, what changed within the last 10 years was the development of direct-acting antivirals , or DAAs, which are packaged into pills that you can take once a day for a few months. Just understand what you're getting into.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

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But what happens if you restore these cone cells, using gene therapy? There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. approved a gene therapy for hemophilia A for the first time. CNGA3-achromatopsia is a hereditary disease that causes people to see in shades of gray.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

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But what happens if you restore these cone cells, using gene therapy? There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. approved a gene therapy for hemophilia A for the first time. CNGA3-achromatopsia is a hereditary disease that causes people to see in shades of gray.

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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

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However, the blandly clinical package of artemisinin and artesunate tablets reveals little about how the key compound was first discovered. After successful testing on animals, Tu and her colleagues volunteered to test the drug sample on themselves, spending a week in a Beijing hospital to do so. Credit: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz.

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Which Arthritis Painkiller Works the Fastest?

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In this special report, I’m going to show you why researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston are now praising a strange new pain treatment originally discovered on the International Space Station. WITHOUT doctors, physical therapists or chiropractors. And then got my Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.