by EpicentRx | Oct 24, 2023 | Blog
Inspired by the likes of Blade, Buffy, Van Helsing, and Abraham Lincoln (who weirdly dispatches bloodsuckers in an excellent novel and a movie) this Halloween we plan to dress up as Vampire Hunters. If vampires are a metaphor for diseases like cancer that feed off the...
by EpicentRx | Oct 23, 2023 | Blog
The golden rule and central moral code from the first Top Gun movie are to “never, never leave your wingman”. Commander Rick “Jester” Heatherly delivers this lecture to reckless and headstrong Lieutenant Pete “Maverick” Mitchell after the latter flouts the rules of...
by EpicentRx | Oct 23, 2023 | Blog
“Remember to always read the EpicentRx Word of the Week.” Anamnesis noun an-am-nee-seez Definition: memory; reminiscence a patient’s medical history Anamnestic adjective an-am-nes-tik of or relating to an anamnesis immunological memory Example sentences: “An...
by EpicentRx | Oct 19, 2023 | Blog
The following is adapted from a presentation that Bryan Oronsky and Scott Caroen from the pharmaceutical company, EpicentRx, gave to the OneTri Conference over Zoom in Brisbane, Australia on October 3, 2023. The Imitation Game The tagline from a commercial by Doritos...
by EpicentRx | Oct 18, 2023 | Blog
One of the most important chemists that you’ve probably never heard of is Stephanie Louise Kwolek (Polish: Chwalek), who invented polyparaphenylene terephthalamide, a stronger-than-steel and lighter-than-fiberglass polymer, which is popularly known as Kevlar®....
