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Why Cats Sniff Each Other’s Butts

PLOS: DNA Science

Now a research team from the Department of Evolution and Ecology and Genome Center University of California, Davis, explains why, with their cataloging of the microbiomes of domestic cat anal glands. The bacterial members of the microbiome produce and release organic compounds that affect the behavior of another cat.

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How to Get Drugs Into the Brain

Drug Hunter

The use of in silico and in vitro assays alleviates ethical concerns on extensive animal research in keeping with the three Rs (Replacement, Reduction, Refinement). Researchers replaced the acidic sulfonamide motif with a benzylic pyridine ether, which significantly improved the K p. Figure 14: Optimization of an NMT inhibitor by DNDi.

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BioSpace Movers & Shakers, Nov. 20

The Pharma Data

Hyman currently serves as director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and is the Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. Q State – Steven Hyman and Mathew Might joined the Q State Biosciences Board of Directors as independent directors.