Bench Talk | Dr. Paula Bates - Using Aptamers to Fight Cancer & COVID-19 | May 16, 2022

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English - May 17, 2022 00:35 - 29 minutes - 21.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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Dr. Paula Bates, Professor of Medicine at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center at the University of Louisville discusses the development of the anticancer drug AS1411 and how it could be useful it fighting the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Learn about aptamers and how they could be used to fight both cancer and COVID. Hear Dave Robinson convert an aptamer sequence into music!

More information about Dr. Bates and AS1411: https://louisville.edu/medicine/research/cancer/pjbate01 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2716701/

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