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You had an exclusive partnership with GlaxoSmithKline for five years, from 2018 to 2023. How successful was that? It was overwhelmingly productive. Fifty drug targets came out of it, far …
“At the risk of sounding arrogant, I would say one of my greatest and ongoing challenges stems from being ahead of my time,” Dr. Todd explains. “My vision for medicine …
Today, an international team of researchers shared an extraordinarily detailed atlas of human brain cells, mapping its staggering diversity of neurons. The atlas was published as part of a massive …
In a disused town hall building in Stratford, East London, a familiar sight awaits those who enter. Health care workers dressed in scrubs emerge from partitioned sections to address a …
About 10 years ago, Žiga Avsec was a PhD physics student who found himself taking a crash course in genomics via a university module on machine learning. He was soon …
When it came to the substantial number that were unknown, the team conducted one more study, using the best understood (at the genetic level) organism of all: Drosophila melanogaster. These …