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#ScienceSaturday: March 2, 2024

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Wendy Chung discusses advances from the Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research for Knowledge (SPARK) Project, which enrolled 275,000 participants with and without autism, between 2016 and 2022. This has created a platform to learn about autism-associated genes, identify risk factors for subgroups, and better inform new interventions.

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New molecular insights on medical cannabis

Drug Target Review

2016 Jun 23;59(12):5604–21. Autotaxin has lysophospholipase D activity leading to tumor cell growth and motility by lysophosphatidic acid production. The Journal of Cell Biology. 2016 Sep;7(1):11248. Frontiers in Medicine. 2018 Jun 13;5. Castagna D, Budd DC, Macdonald SJF, et al. J Med Chem. 2012 Feb 1;40(1):31–6.

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Building better brain models for Parkinson’s disease and beyond

Drug Target Review

Turning this tide, Professor Jens Christian Schwamborn, a cell biology expert at the University of Luxembourg and co-founder of OrganoTherapeutics , is leading a groundbreaking effort to transform our understanding and treatment of these debilitating diseases.

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Guest Blog: Reflecting on the 2024 Society of Toxicology of Canada Symposium, by Ria Falvo, Director, Reporting

Alta Sciences

Before joining Altasciences, Ria received a Bachelor of Science from McGill Universitys Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in 1998, and became a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology in October 2016.

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Cancer immunotherapy: GDF-15’s role in Anti-PD-1 resistance

Drug Target Review

Coordinated integrin activation by actin-dependent force during T-cell migration. 2016 Oct 10;7(1):13119. LFA-1 in T cell migration and differentiation. Shear forces induce ICAM-1 nanoclustering on endothelial cells that impact on T-cell migration. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. Walling BL, Kim M.

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Women in Stem with Vicky Marsh Durban

Drug Target Review

I don’t think that it’s harder for women to enter careers in STEM, at least not in the scientific field—cell biology—that I have predominantly worked in. She returned to Cardiff in 2014 for a Research Fellowship at the European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute.

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AI At The Frontier: Empowering Early Career Professionals In Drug Discovery

Elrig

Jasmine has a background in neuroscience and genetic manipulation, with early works focused on using a combined structural and molecular biology approach to assess disease-associated proteins implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. Driven by an interest in drug discovery Millie joined AstraZeneca after completion of her PhD at the end of 2020.