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Viral Variants and Vaccines With Sean Elias
For this Teach Me in 10 episode, we're joined by Dr. Sean Elias from the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford. In just 10 minutes, Dr. Elias provides you with everything you need to know about viral variants and vaccines.
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The Discovery of Insulin
Nearly 100 years since insulin was first used in the treatment of diabetes, Professor Chantal Mathieu, Professor of Medicine at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, takes us through the history, development and future of this life-saving drug.
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Treating Addiction With Psychedelics
Psychedelics are being explored for a myriad of neurological and psychiatric conditions. In this video, Technology Networks speak with Professor David Nutt and Anthony Tennyson from Awakn Life Sciences, a Toronto-based company who focus on the use of psychedelics to treat addiction.
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Celebrating canSAR: The Largest Public Cancer Drug Discovery Resource in the World
Since its release in 2011, canSAR has become the largest, public, cancer drug discovery resource in the world. It brings together billions of pieces of experimental data across disciplines – biology, chemistry, pharmacology, structural biology, cell biology – with clinical insights.
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Welcome to the Zeno Revolution: Introducing the ZenoTOF 7600 System
A powerful leap in proprietary innovation, this high-resolution accurate mass system combines the power of Zeno trap pulsing with EAD fragmentation technology (electron activated dissociation) to uncover structural information, previously inaccessible, and drive the limits of quantification achievable with accurate mass further.
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COVID-19, Vaccines and the Menstrual Cycle
There are many different factors that might contribute to a change in an individual's menstrual cycle, and we wanted to know whether there is any evidence that suggests COVID-19 disease, or vaccination, could be examples of such factors. Answering our questions in this Teach Me in 10 episode is Dr Susan Khalil, assistant professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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How the Science of Chirality Is Helping the Search for Better Drugs and Origins of Life
Many of the building blocks of life exist in two forms that are mirror images of one another – a phenomenon known as chirality that is necessary for life to exist at all. How chirality arose eons ago is one of the great mysteries of science. In her Front Row lecture, Donna Blackmond, PhD, shares how deciphering the origins of chirality can help scientists design and develop safer, modern pharmaceuticals and in the search for life on other planets.
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Electronic Pills That Could Transform How We Treat Disease
Could a small jolt of electricity to your gut help treat chronic diseases? Medical hacker and TED Fellow Khalil Ramadi is developing a new, noninvasive therapy that could treat diseases like diabetes, obesity, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's with an electronic pill.
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Ugly History: The U.S. Syphilis Experiment
Dig into the unethical Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which spanned 40 years and lied to its participants about receiving treatment for syphilis.
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Breast Cancer Treatment – Prof. Andrew Tutt on the OlympiA Trial
The results of the OlympiA clinical trial, involving ICR researchers, shows giving the drug olaparib for one year to breast cancer patients with inherited BRCA mutations, after they have completed initial treatment, reduced the chance of their breast cancer returning. Professor Andrew Tutt, Head of Breast Cancer Research at the ICR, explains more.
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