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As observed for other S1PR modulators, a transient mean (SD) heart rate reduction in white (15.1 (14.8) bpm) and Asian (11.8 (6.16) bpm) subjects was observed following administration of cenerimod. The drug was safe and well-tolerated indicated by occurrence of a single adverse event of chemical conjunctivitis in a white subject that was not suspected as study drug related. CC-930 In conclusion, the determined absence of any relevant PK or PD differences supports using the same doses of cenerimod in white and Asian patients in upcoming late-phase studies.Biomimetics is a known innovation paradigm of the twenty-first century with significant impact on science, society, economy, and challenges of sustainability. As such, it can be understood as a mindset for creative thinking and as a methodology or technique for effective knowledge transfer between disciplines, mainly biology and technology. As biomimetics is relevant to practitioners in various fields of application, understanding the teaching and training of biomimetics for different audiences is important. With this article, we aim to give a holistic view of teaching and training practices and opportunities. First, we offer a set of learning objectives based on an analysis of various courses worldwide and we give recommendations for the design of future curricula. Second, based on an audience analysis and interviews, we developed a set of personas of the users of biomimetics, and as such, we offer a deeper understanding of their needs for the design of the process, including tools and methods.Male sterility is widely used in the production of hybrid seeds in rice, but the use of genic male sterility is limited because of the high labour cost for maintaining male-sterile lines. Previous studies using T-DNA insertional mutagenesis demonstrated that disrupting the expression of oxophytodienoic acid reductase 3 (OPR3), which is involved in the jasmonate biosynthesis pathway, results in a kind of male sterility that can be restored to fertility by exogenous jasmonate in Arabidopsis. Here, we created male-sterile mutations by editing the second and fourth exons of OsOPR7 in rice through clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated system 9. The induced mutagenesis at these exons resulted in 31.8% and 23.9% male-sterile plants in the T0 generation, respectively. We screened male-sterile lines that can be restored to fertility by exogenous methyl jasmonate in the T0, T1 and T2 rice populations and characterized the anther and agronomic traits of the transgenic plants. Results showed the successful generation of male-sterile lines through the silencing of OsOPR7, the orthologous gene of Arabidopsis OPR3, in a field crop, paving the way for the establishment of a two-line system for rice hybrid production. The system consists of a male-sterile line that can be maintained by spraying methyl jasmonate and a restoring line that confers pollen.In a multinational placebo-controlled phase III clinical trial in 2,185 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and stage 4 chronic kidney disease, treatment with the Nrf2 activator bardoxolone methyl increased estimated glomerular filtration rate, a measure of kidney function, but also resulted in increases in serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and gamma glutamyl transferase. These increases in liver enzyme level(s) were maximal after 4 weeks of treatment and reversible, trending back toward baseline through week 48. Total bilirubin concentrations did not increase, and no cases met Hy's Law criteria, although two subjects had ALT concentrations that exceeded 10 × the upper limit of the population reference range leading to discontinuation of treatment. Animal and cell culture experiments suggested that the increases in ALT and AST induced by bardoxolone methyl may be related to its pharmacological activity. Bardoxolone methyl significantly induced the mRNA expression of ALT and AST isoforms in cultured cells. Expression of ALT and AST isoforms in liver and kidney also positively correlated with Nrf2 status in mice. Overall, these data suggest that the increases in ALT and AST observed clinically were, at least in part, related to the pharmacological induction of aminotransferases via Nrf2 activation, rather than to any intrinsic form of hepatotoxicity.We conducted a multi-site investigation of genetic determinants of warfarin dose variability in Latinos from the U.S. and Brazil. Patients from four institutions in the United States (n = 411) and Brazil (n = 663) were genotyped for VKORC1 c.-1639G> A, common CYP2C9 variants, CYP4F2*3, and NQO1*2. Multiple regression analysis was used in the U.S. cohort to test the association between warfarin dose and genotype, adjusting for clinical factors, with further testing in an independent cohort of Brazilians. In the U.S. cohort, VKORC1 and CYP2C9 variants were associated with lower warfarin dose (β = -0.29, P less then 2.0 × 10-16 ; β = -0.21, P = 4.7 × 10-7 , respectively) whereas CYP4F2 and NQO1 variants were associated with higher dose (β = 0.10, P = 2 × 10-4 ; β = 0.10, P = 0.01, respectively). Associations with VKORC1 (β = -0.14, P = 2.0 × 10-16 ), CYP2C9 (β = -0.07, P = 5.6 × 10-10 ), and CYP4F2 (β = 0.03, P = 3 × 10-3 ), but not NQO1*2 (β = 0.01, P = 0.30), were replicated in the Brazilians, explaining 43-46% of warfarin dose variability among the cohorts from the U.S. and Brazil, respectively. We identified genetic associations with warfarin dose requirements in the largest cohort of ancestrally diverse, warfarin-treated Latinos from the United States and Brazil to date. We confirmed the association of variants in VKORC1, CYP2C9, and CYP4F2 with warfarin dose in Latinos from the United States and Brazil.Anticancer efficacy is driven not only by dose but also by frequency and duration of treatment. We describe a multiscale model combining cell cycle, cellular heterogeneity of B-cell lymphoma 2 family proteins, and pharmacology of AZD5991, a potent small-molecule inhibitor of myeloid cell leukemia 1 (Mcl-1). The model was calibrated using in vitro viability data for the MV-4-11 acute myeloid leukemia cell line under continuous incubation for 72 hours at concentrations of 0.03-30 μM. Using a virtual screen, we identified two schedules as having significantly different predicted efficacy and showed experimentally that a "short" schedule (treating cells for 6 of 24 hours) is significantly better able to maintain the rate of cell kill during treatment than a "long" schedule (18 of 24 hours). This work suggests that resistance can be driven by heterogeneity in protein expression of Mcl-1 alone without requiring mutation or resistant subclones and demonstrates the utility of mathematical models in efficiently identifying regimens for experimental exploration.