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Biologics – The Next Step in Revolutionary Medication

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In fact, biologics are anticipated to play a significant role in shaping the pharmaceutical industry and will eventually serve as an integral part of traditional medicines. Overview of Biologics Biologics refer to medicinal / therapeutic products that are either manufactured using living organisms or semi-synthesized from biological sources.

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Artificial intelligence could be new blueprint for precision drug discovery

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online issue of Nature Communications, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine describe a new approach that uses machine learning to hunt for disease targets and then predicts whether a drug is likely to receive FDA approval. “Academic labs and pharmaceutical and? the success rates in drug discovery?are

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Otto Bayer Award goes to Prof. Ruth Ley PhD

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Her cryo-electron microscopy studies include analysis of nuclear peripheries and the machinery of gene expression in bacteria. In the Medicine category Dr. Nicolai Franzmeier (LMU Munich) was honored for developing new imaging techniques to investigate Alzheimer’s disease. The Otto Bayer Award.

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Women in Science Who Have Paved the Way Forward in Genetics

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Geneticist Martha Chase was a key partner of the foundational Hershey-Chase experiment that helped confirm DNA to be the carrier of genetic information; however, it was only Hershey of the pair that went on to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969 for the discovery. Chase’s exclusion from the prize remains a mystery.

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CRISPR breakthroughs: New solutions for common diseases

Drug Discovery World

Rolf Turk , Senior Manager, Genomics Medicine at Integrated DNA Technologies, examines how CRISPR is being used to enhance cancer therapies. These efforts, along with many others, are opening doors for new possibilities in translational medicine. Herpesviridae, Polyomaviridae, and Papillomaviridae), bacteria (e.g.,

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My Hemochromatosis cb vsl | Blue Heron Health News

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It’s because certain genes act one way on some people… and another way on other people. Putting this in medical jargon, the geneexpresses’ one way with Bob, for example, and a completely different way with Mary. How a gene expresses – that is, how the gene affects you – goes on to determine whether you get ill or not.

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

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In addition to pharma and biotech companies who zealously began working to develop COVID-19 drugs and vaccines, companies from areas outside of science and medicine also stepped up to help during the pandemic. By re-tooling it, they were able to develop CRISPR/Cas9, a precision gene editing technology that can be used in any living organism.