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Tackling pain and mental health with plant-based medicines

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This was first demonstrated in 1899 with the production of aspirin, a semi-synthetic drug based on the natural product salicin isolated from white bark (Salix alba). DDW Volume 25 – Issue 1, Winter 2023/2024 Biography: Michael Krogh Jensen is a Co-founder and CEO of Biomia, founded in 2022.

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Global advances in synthetic biology

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Lu Rahman selects some recent synthetic biology innovations and the potential they hold to benefit drug discovery. . The rapidly growing area of synthetic biology – including molecular biology, biotechnology, biophysics, and genetic engineering – is having a marked impact on the drug discovery landscape.

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Synthesised sea sponge molecule could fight Parkinson’s

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Organic chemists at t he University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have created the first synthetic version of a molecule recently discovered in a sea sponge that may have therapeutic benefits for Parkinson’s disease and similar disorders.

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Synthetic Origins

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I was reading a lot of molecular biology papers about different systems, especially circadian clocks, and also a book called Biological Feedback , by Thomas and D’Ari, that sketched out really simple models for different kinds of feedback circuits. So many kinds of people have contributed to biology in different ways.

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