Genomics and drug discovery
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A symposium entitled 'Genomics and Drug Discovery' focused on the development of new therapeutic agents based on information derived from genomics. Topics presented by several scientists included researches on disease-associated genes, gene expression, analysis of gene function based on model organisms, proteomics, yeast genome sequence and the urgent need to discover new antibiotics.
Publication Name: Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
Subject: Pharmaceuticals and cosmetics industries
ISSN: 0165-6147
Year: 1998
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One wheel on my wagon: lysolipid phosphate signalling
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A conference on Lysophospholipids and Eicosanoids in Cancer and in Cardiovascular and Neurodegenerative Diseases, held in New York, June 25-27, 1999, is discussed. Topics include structures, detection and measurement, synthesis, inactivation, receptors, and pathophysiology of lysolipid phosphates.
Publication Name: Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
Subject: Pharmaceuticals and cosmetics industries
ISSN: 0165-6147
Year: 1999
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