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Time for change: non-human primates in drug research

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European Directive 2010/63/EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes. References Animal Legal Defense Fund v. USDA (2020). Federal ruling on USDA primate welfare petition, 2023. National Research Council. Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare – Training Guidelines.

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The evolution of cell therapy to address unmet medical needs

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MSTX), from 2010, and was also a member of its board of directors from 2011, until Mast’s merger with Savara, Inc. He received a BS in biology from Boston College, a masters in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an M.B.A. SVRA) in April 2017.

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Gamma delta T cells: a rising star in cancer therapy

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Prior to that, Mr Ho was at New Leaf Venture Partners, a leading healthcare venture capital firm, where he launched and managed the public investments and cross-over portfolio, and served as its Public Investment Director from 2010 to 2014. from 2003 to 2006, covering the biotechnology and life-science tools sectors.

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Mediating BRAF-mutant melanoma resistance

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Alani currently serves as the Herbert Mescon Endowed Professor and Chair of Dermatology at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisan School of Medicine and the Dermatologist-in-Chief at Boston Medical Center, a position she has held since January, 2010.

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AstraZeneca unveils The Discovery Centre (DISC) in Cambridge

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Within close propinquity to AstraZeneca’s new centre is the University of Cambridge’s School of Clinical Medicine, the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cancer Research UK and the Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke’s Hospitals, among others.

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Using AI to predict metastatic behaviour of NSCLC

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Dr Cote began his career at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, rising to Professor in departments of Pathology and Urology and Director in the Genitourinary Cancer Program, Laboratory of Immunology and Molecular Pathology and USC Biomedical Nanoscience Initiative. In 2009, he became the Joseph R. Coulter Jr.

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The Promise of Gas Vesicles

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Even after a half-century of molecular biology research, scientists didn’t know until recently how gas vesicles physically trap gas while occluding water. Right) The passage of text from a 2010 review that inspired Mikhail Shapiro to engineer gas vesicles. Voigt, Biotechnology Journal (2010). 31,500x magnification.