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 1) TIL that Calico has advanced a sister molecule of ISRIB into clinical trials for ALS

2) The Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine is indicated first and foremost for preventing tuberculosis, but has found new life as an immunotherapy against bladder cancer

3) Watch: Pharmaceutical patents, explained

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I wonder how legitimate these other inhibitors of glucagon are...? In any case, in this new post Ozempic world I suspect we'll start to see moonshot drug repurposing efforts for obesity – due to some weird preclinical finding in relation to glucagon / GLP-1.

5) At long last, scientists have invented Modafinil 2

6) Adorable biology lore: the first genetically cloned cat was named CC, for "Carbon Copy". That has to be the most tongue-in-cheek naming in biology since the discovery of SHH.