Kennedy's incorrigible ignorance is metastasizing.

𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐢 (A) The natural peptide SQ 20881 (sequence EWPRPQIPP), discovered in Bothrops jararaca venom, is an inhibitor of ACE, inducing a drop in blood pressure. Squibb company synthetized a derivative which led, after optimization, to the captopril (1981). Because of the side effects of the thiol group, Merck replaced the latter with a carboxylate, resulting in the enalaprilat molecule (1985). However, as this modification resulted in the loss of oral bioavailability, the esterification of the enalaprilat was considered by Merck to solve the problem successfully and created the enalapril (1985). (B) Interaction between captopril and ACE. By preventing the binding of the inert Angiotensin I to ACE, captopril inhibits the formation of Angiotensin II.

Cholera outbreak in Angola kills nearly 600 people

The kinetoplastids are so called because of the mitochondria-like kinetoplast found near the flagellar basal body. A B C & D depict their developmental stages. The cutaneous manifestation of Leishmaniasis recently reported in Venezuela is spread by sandfly bites. Map: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311500121_Diagnosis_and_Treatment_of_Leishmaniasis_Clinical_Practice_Guidelines_by_the_Infectious_Diseases_Society_of_America_IDSA_and_the_American_Society_of_Tropical_Medicine_and_Hygiene_ASTMH

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This is who wants to dismantle education.

Under Bigotocracy, truck drivers need to be more literate than the head of HHS.

After firing the CDC lead poisoning experts amid a Milwaukee lead poisoning crisis, RFK Jr. has fired the CDC's cruise ship inspectors amid a bad year for outbreaks, despite cruise ships being a prime breeding ground for infectious diseases.

The Trump administration installed DOGE operative Scott Coulter as the new Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Social Security Administration (SSA) to evade a federal court order blocking DOGE affiliates from dismantling Social Security.

thalidomide acts by promoting the degradation of an unexpectedly wide range of transcription factors – cell proteins that help switch genes on or off – including one called SALL4

After 60 years, scientists uncover how thalidomide produced birth defects

More than 60 years after the drug thalidomide caused birth defects in thousands of children whose mothers took the drug while pregnant, scientists ...

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