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Gene Therapy and Pharmacokinetics

Camargo

How and When to Incorporate PK Design into Your Gene Therapy Development Plan. Gene therapy, which was in its infancy around 30 years ago, is now becoming a more prominent treatment method in many therapeutic areas, from personalized therapy to mass vaccinations against COVID-19. Gene Therapy Definition.

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Salt stress alters legume responses to symbiotic rhizobacteria by modulating gene expression

Scienmag

Legumes engage in a unique and beneficial interaction with a group of soil bacteria, collectively called rhizobia. Crop legumes are an integral part of sustainable agriculture, as several of these species represent an important protein source for both human and animal populations.

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Scientists discover small RNA that regulates bacterial infection

The Pharma Data

But the bacteria can sometimes change their behavior and enter the bloodstream, causing chronic localized infections to become acute and potentially fatal. Abell Chair in Molecular and Cellular Biology – and Pengbo Cao, a postdoctoral researcher in Whiteley’s lab, discovered a gene that drives the switch.

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Biologics – The Next Step in Revolutionary Medication

Roots Analysis

This can be attributed to the fact that the production of biopharmaceuticals requires living expression systems. Usually, the desired gene, such as human insulin gene, when inserted into the plasmid of the host cell uses transcriptional and translational machinery of the host to express itself.

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Artificial intelligence could be new blueprint for precision drug discovery

The Pharma Data

The AI approach helps model a disease using a map of successive changes in gene expression at the onset and during the progression of the disease. The underlying algorithms ensure that the identified gene expression patterns are ‘invariant’ regardless of different disease cohorts. Nature Communications, 2021.

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Anti-tumor agent from the intestine

The Pharma Data

We are talking about the microbiome – the vast collection of bacteria in the human gut. The microbiome has been the focus of research for 20 years – ever since a new technique made it possible to analyse these bacteria quickly and precisely: high-throughput sequencing. In doing so, they induce epigenetic changes.

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Gene Switch: A Novel Platform for Switching Genes On and Off

Roots Analysis

Overview of Gene Switch The notion that genes might be turned on and off was discovered several decades ago when studies revealed that E. coli bacteria, as well as lambda bacteriophage, can adapt to the alterations in the composition of their nutrient medium.

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