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Biomedical Discoveries Underpin Good Health

Over the past decade, advances in molecular biology, genetics, and instrumentation have made it possible to address complex questions that earlier seemed far out of reach. We now have the means to look at complex interactions among genes, as well as the interplay between environment and genetic variation.


Jun Liu on Looking to Nature for New Medications

Jun Liu, Ph.D., a professor of pharmacology and molecular sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, talks about the drug discovery lessons that can be learned from natural compounds, including the immunosuppressive drugs FK506 and rapamycin.

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