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David Liu receives Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Broad Institute

During his doctoral research at University of California Berkeley, Liu initiated the first general effort to expand the genetic code in living cells. Liu became an HHMI investigator in 2005 and joined the JASONs, academic science advisors to the US government, in 2009.

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Forging a Path Forward for Substance Abuse Potential Studies With the Cross-Company Abuse Liability Council By Beatrice Setnik, PhD

Alta Sciences

Addressing New Challenges in Human Abuse Potential Research The CCALC has held face-to-face meetings in collaboration with industry, academia, and the FDA once every two to three years since inception, and has provided much of the industry perspective on the practical challenges and solutions to assessing abuse and dependence potential.

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Building better brain models for Parkinson’s disease and beyond

Drug Target Review

His research focuses on creating advanced cell culture models, such as brain organoids and assembloids, derived from patient-specific stem cells. In this interview, Professor Schwamborn discusses his research, the promise of brain organoids, and his vision for the future of stem cell-based therapies.

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Contezolid

New Drug Approvals

36,37 The synthesis of contezolid builds on prior research from other groups. Organic Synth 2005, 81, 112. (39) Contezolid was developed to overcome the myelosuppression and monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibition limitations of the structurally similar linezolid. and piperidine-4-one 4.2 to furnish 4.3 in good yield (Scheme 9).

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Fourth IHR Emergency Meeting on 2024 Mpox Surge – Temporary Recommendations

The Pharma Data

WHO Maintains Global Health Emergency Status for Mpox Amid 2024 Surge, Issues Strengthened Recommendations In response to the continuing resurgence of mpox across several regions in 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened the fourth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee on 5 June 2025.

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Life as Slime

Codon

This, roughly, was the retort of the physicist David Deutsch, responding to Hawking in 2005. He is a Research Affiliate at Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Deutsch classified us as the “chemical scum that dreams of distant quasars.” Thomas Moynihan is a historian and writer.

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New biomarkers found for diabetic kidney disease

Drug Target Review

Proteomics analyses Researchers Shichun Du, Linhui Zhai, Shu Ye and their colleagues completed large-scale urinary proteomics (n = 144) and urinary exosome proteomics (n = 44) analyses on patients with T2DM in varying degrees of albuminuria. 2005 June 14 [cited 2023 October 13]; 10(3):283-290. Nephrology [Internet].