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Searching for answers in rare epilepsy

pharmaphorum

Geneticist Dr Charles Steward has spent his career studying the human genome – but his work became much more personal when his children were diagnosed with severe neurological diseases. Everything the 100,000 Genomes Project does has to be rubber-stamped by the patients”. For some people, a job is more than just a job.

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Searching for answers in rare epilepsy

pharmaphorum

Geneticist Dr Charles Steward has spent his career studying the human genome – but his work became much more personal when his children were diagnosed with severe neurological diseases. Everything the 100,000 Genomes Project does has to be rubber-stamped by the patients”. For some people, a job is more than just a job.

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Molecular mechanisms of corona drug candidate Molnupiravir unraveled

The Pharma Data

The antiviral agent incorporates RNA-like building blocks into the RNA genome of the virus. ” Mutations in the genome stop the virus. In the first phase, the viral copying machine, called RNA polymerase, incorporates these building blocks into the RNA genome of the virus.

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Kiromic Announces the Filing of Key European Patents for Its Chimeric PD-1 (chPD1) Target

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Longwood has a robust research department with 7 post doctorates conducting research in molecular biology, microbiology, genomics, cancer biology, and immunology and publishing over 75 publications in different scientific journals in the past 5 years. Barber also serves on Kiromic’s Scientific Advisory Board. About Longwood University.

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Biorepositories as a Guiding Resource for Research & Drug Discovery

XTalks

The power of leveraging clinical data to decipher disease mechanisms and fuel drug discovery has rapidly grown in the era of genomics and personalized medicine. Genuity Science focuses on population genomics as a tool to derive novel biological insights through partnerships with industry-leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

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WHO Honors the Legacy and Contribution of Henrietta Lacks

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This included segregated wards at Johns Hopkins containing Black patients with cervical cancer whom white doctors would collect samples from without their knowledge or consent. The lawsuit outlines some of the systemic racial abuses in the medical system at the time that led to the “horrifying dehumanization of Black patients.”

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Women in Science Who Have Paved the Way Forward in Genetics

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The Human Genome Project recently marked 20 years since the publication of the first full sets of human genomic sequences, an endeavor that spanned well over a decade. Today, new next-generation sequencing technologies allow for the sequencing of complex genomes within just a day or two.

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