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Education and empowerment would provide more equal access to care

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This sticky mucus gets trapped and breeds infections from bacteria I inhale,” says Ella, who adds she was “terrified” of doctors as a child. The bacteria become more resistant to antibiotics and that makes them harder to clear. This interrupts replication patterns and, ultimately, kills the bacterium.”. I was really sick.

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Global advances in synthetic biology

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It is believed that the term synthetic biology was created in 1970 by geneticist, Waclaw Szybalski 1 as work was being carried out on the development of DNA sequencing and synthesis techniques. The Rockefeller University 2 recently reported the development of a synthetic antibiotic that could potentially work against drug-resistant bacteria.

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2020 Year in Review: COVID-19, CRISPR and Immunotherapies Define the Year for the Life Sciences

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Doudna, PhD, of the University of California, Berkeley and Emmanuelle Charpentier, PhD, of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens Institute for Infection Biology, revolutionized genetic research by helping to identify a natural gene editing mechanism in bacteria.

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Top 30 Pharma and Biotech Companies in 2023: Statistics and Trends

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2) Botox Therapeutic/Cosmetic Botox, or botulinum neurotoxin, is a neurotoxic protein produced by the Clostridium botulinum bacteria. 5) Lynparza (Olaparib) Lynparza is a PARP inhibitor , meaning it inhibits poly ADP ribose polymerase (PARP), an enzyme involved in DNA repair. AbbVie’s total global revenue for Humira was $21.24

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