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Chemical Biology and Molecular Biophysics Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP-CBMB), Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, ...

For most of the past 40 years, Chinese biotech companies were mainly replicating existing medications, known as “me-too” drugs. But over the past 10 years, they’ve begun to innovate with ...

"An important area for future studies is the possibility that disproportionate rates of hypothyroidism among South Asian immigrants may be related to an endemic lack of iodine in their countries ...

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There's an arms race in medicine—scientists design drugs to treat lethal bacterial infections, but bacteria can evolve defenses to those drugs, sending the researchers back to square one.

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For this work, the researchers started out with green-emitting perovskite quantum dots and placed them in a solution containing either chlorine or iodine. Then they ran this solution through a ...