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Sugar-based microcapsule

Microcapsule Eliminates Toxic Punch of Experimental Anti-Cancer Drug

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a sugar-based molecular microcapsule that eliminates the toxicity of an anticancer agent developed a decade ago at Johns Hopkins, called 3-bromopyruvate, or 3BrPA, in studies of mice with implants of human pancreatic cancer tissue. The encapsulated…

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Aids Activism Illustration of Discrimination Crowds Gather to Protest

AIDS Activist Fights for FDA

In this July 22, 2014 photo, AIDS activist Gregg Gonsalves walks outside Grand Central Terminal during a photo session, in New York. In the early 1990s, Gonsalves traveled to Washington to confront, provoke and challenge officials at the Food and Drug…

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