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• Fantastic Delivery – Innovations in Targeted Drug Delivery Systems

  The risks of delivering a drug somewhere it doesn’t belong are more than just the lost potency of the treatment; it can mean healthy tissue gets damaged and... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Fantastic Genomes – Editing a Better Future

  Few innovations have sparked as much excitement in modern medicine as gene editing. Today, we’re witnessing a revolution that allows us to not only study but... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Fantastic Factories 2 – The Rise of Cell-Free Systems

  In the evolving landscape of biologics and gene therapies, innovation isn’t limited to the cells themselves. If you step back and look at what we are trying to... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Fantastic Messages – mRNA Drugs Beyond Vaccines

  mRNA technology captured the spotlight with its transformative role in vaccines, but the story of messenger RNA is far richer—and far more versatile—than that... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Fantastic Variety – Engineering Novel Cell Therapies

  Few breakthroughs in modern medicine are as awe-inspiring as our ability to harness living cells and re-engineer them to fight disease. Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Fantastic Killers – Bringing a CAR-T Cell to a Cytokine Fight

  If you need a job done right, you call in an expert with the right tools. In the case of cancer, that expert is a T cell, and that tool is a chimeric antigen... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Fantastic Designs – Engineering Antibodies Beyond Recognition

  Antibodies stand at the forefront of biologics, lauded for their remarkable specificity and proven therapeutic versatility. Yet their story extends far beyond... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Fantastic Factories – The Mammalian Cell Line Production Systems

  If the advent of bacterial and yeast systems revolutionized the early days of biologics, the rise of mammalian cell lines cemented the transition to modern... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Fantastic Specificity – Antibodies Against the World

  Welcome back for Volume 4 of the Fantastic Drugs series! When you think of biologics, it is hard not to picture antibodies first. Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Fantastic Yeasts (and Bacteria) – How Insulin Manufacturing Transformed...

  I want to take a brief interlude in the series to talk about how a fantastic drug becomes a fantastic drug. The story of insulin, covered in the previous... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Sweet and Bitter History of Insulin—The First Biologic

  Volume 2 in the Fantastic Drugs and Where to Find Them series!Make sure you check out Volume 1 where we dragged ourselves out of the stone age (small molecule... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Innovation Unleashed: Streamlining Approvals Without Compromising Trust

  One of the most motivating aspects of working in biomedical research is the sense of urgency that comes with knowing real lives may depend on the outcome of you... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Medicare Expands Drug Price Negotiations: New Opportunities and Persistent...

  In a significant move to lower healthcare costs, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has selected 15 additional drugs for Medicare price... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Fantastic Drugs: From Chemistry to Complexity – Our Journey from Small...

  Volume 1 in the Fantastic Drugs and Where to Find Them series! Few things have caused such fundamental changes in our lives as pills. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Fantastic Drugs and Where to Find Them – A Cell Lines Blog Series

  If you spend any time exploring the history of science and medicine, it often feels like we’re living in a golden age of discovery and innovation. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Price of Success: Exploring the Complex Relationship Between Breakthrough...

  For many, a drug’s price seems to mirror the immense difficulty of creating life-saving therapies. Yet a closer look at the drug development landscape reveals... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• Spring is Coming: Fargo’s Biotech Future

  The recent news of layoffs at Aldevron has cast a shadow over the biotech community here in Fargo, but every winter has a spring and North Dakotans know this al... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2025 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Survey of the MAP Kinases

  

  The MAP Kinases are the most widely used eukaryotic cell signaling mechanism, and involve a cascade of kinase activity. This article covers the basic structure... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2023 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Cell Signaling Series

  A Letter from the Editor - Introducing the Cell Signaling Series Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2023 SELF EXPRESSION

• Loud and Clear – An Introduction to Cell Signaling

  This overview of cell signaling provides the basis for the Cell Signaling Series special. It covers the use of signaling in the cell, the types of molecules... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2023 SELF EXPRESSION