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Women in Stem with Dr Emily Leproust

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I started my journey in chemistry – first as an undergraduate and then in my PhD programme at the University of Houston, where I focused on organic chemistry and nucleic acids chemistry. Because I was put into the highest tier, I was automatically mapped to the engineering track.

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

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She has played a key role inbuilding the target identification platform and a proprietary database of transcriptome-wide, functional RNA structures. Harini joined Serna Bio in early 2021 and has been an integral part of the multidisciplinary teamworking on target ID platform development to drug discovery.

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Making the Centrifuge

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Many discoveries — from microscopy to organic chemistry — came from German scientists working in a period of increasing industrialization, economic growth, and military mobility. Among them were the Prandtl brothers, Antonin and Alexander, both trained as engineers in the applied sciences. late 1800s.

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A Brief History of GFP

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A year later, two independent teams engineered GFP into synthetic biological circuits, enabling them to watch living cells act as tiny biochemical oscillators — the start of synthetic biology. First, Hirata was so impressed with his young student that he granted him a PhD in organic chemistry in 1960. Cite: Sunil, Smrithi.

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