XTalks

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This has ushered in a new era of genomics that is fostering rapid, detailed and personalized insights into human genetics. Xtalks is celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with a special overview of notable female scientists who have made revolutionary contributions to the field of genetics.

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BioPharma Reporter

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The use of CRISPR, the genetic scissors that allow scientists to edit the instruction manual of life, DNA, has drawn massive global attention over the last several years.

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XTalks

AUGUST 29, 2022

Now a common gene editing tool, the popularity of the CRISPR-Cas9 system has increased over the past decade. CRISPR is notable for engineering living cells, allowing scientists to edit, turn off, delete, or replace genes in a cell’s genome. Harnessing the Cellular Engineering Potential of CRISPR.

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STAT News

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

A man with muscular dystrophy who was first in line to receive an experimental gene editing therapy tailor made to treat the cause of his rare form of the disease has died. The treatment used a new version of CRISPR to turn on a backup copy of the dystrophin gene that mysteriously lies dormant in our muscles.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In celebration of the Nobel Prize for Medicine going to two of the early proponents of mRNA technology for creating therapeutics, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, this week our round-up highlights the importance of genetics, genomics and gene editing in drug discovery.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 17, 2023

Oregon State University College of Pharmacy scientists have shown that lipid nanoparticles and messenger RNA could treat blindness associated with a rare genetic condition. . We used these peptides to act as zip codes to deliver nanoparticles carrying genetic materials to the intended address within the eye.” .

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Dr Jennifer Harbottle, senior scientist in the R&D Base Editing team of PerkinElmer’s Horizon Discovery business, looks at progress made in the realms of biotechnology and next-generation diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics, including the application of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in developing and refining cell therapies.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Scientists have shown how stomach cancers can develop resistance to a new class of drugs called ATR inhibitors by switching off the activity of two key genes – raising the possibility of outsmarting cancer by predicting drug resistance in advance. . CRISPR used to identify genes involved. It was funded by Cancer Research UK.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Drs Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have won this year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry in recognition of their work on the gene-editing technology CRISPR/Cas9. The technique introduces a break in a specific place within DNA that triggers a self-repair mechanism. What started as a curiosity? million) Nobel Prize award. “In

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XTalks

JANUARY 26, 2024

Innovations in Cancer Therapy CRISPR/Cas9, a groundbreaking gene-editing technology, has demonstrated significant potential in oncology, offering new avenues for cancer treatment. By tailoring treatments based on an individual’s genetic makeup, it may allow for more effective and targeted therapies.

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 2, 2022

The team, which is made up of scientists from the UK, US and Singapore, was selected by an International Advisory Panel chaired by Professor Sir Patrick Vallance, Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government. . We believe that we will have a gene therapy ready to start testing in clinical trials in the next five years. . “The

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Scientists in Israel have used the CRISPR Cas-9 gene editing system to destroy cancerous cells in mice without damaging other cells. To conduct the research, the scientists used hundreds of mice with two of the most aggressive forms of cancer: glioblastoma and metastatic ovarian cancer. Photo courtesy of Science Advances.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

From a general healthcare perspective, access to this sort of data is invaluable, but this is particularly noteworthy in that DNA tests have historically been limited in these regions on account of cost and availability of practitioners, services and resources.

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XTalks

MAY 4, 2021

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the Whitehead Institute have developed a novel CRISPR-based tool called “CRISPRoff” that can switch off genes in human cells through epigenetic editing without altering the genetic sequence itself. Epigenetic Editing with CRISPR. pyogenes dCas9.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 18, 2023

Rolf Turk , Senior Manager, Genomics Medicine at Integrated DNA Technologies, examines how CRISPR is being used to enhance cancer therapies. parvovirus B19, Flaviviridae, Ebola, and Coronaviridae), DNA viruses (e.g., CRISPR diagnostics have successfully detected various pathogens, including RNA viruses (eg.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 23, 2023

Kevin Hemphill, R&D Manager at PerkinElmer’s Horizon Discovery explores how base editing has emerged as an attractive gene editing option for researchers wanting to develop stem cell-based therapies. In addition, iPSC lines, despite their pluripotency, have skewed suitability towards certain cell types 12,13.

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XTalks

MAY 4, 2021

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the Whitehead Institute have developed a novel CRISPR-based tool called “CRISPRoff” that can switch off genes in human cells without editing the genetic sequence itself. Epigenome Editing with CRISPR. It’s a great tool for controlling gene expression.”.

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Delveinsight

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Beam Therapeutics has taken over a startup whose technology could proffer the biotech’s genetic medicines to more tissues in the body, widening the potential to approach more diseases. The gene-editing technologies, which have reached the clinic, CRISPR, zinc finger nucleases, and TALENs, make their edits by nicking DNA at the target site.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Scientists have used CRISPR gene editing to target and rapidly destroy glioblastoma cells in an approach that could apply to other highly mutated cancers. In glioblastoma, as with many other highly recurrent cancers, tumour cells that escape treatment develop multiple genetic adaptations that allow them to proliferate.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

DDL was founded in 1994, also originally started by a group of scientists operating in a university, also specialising in infectious diseases, but with more of a focus on HPV and Hepatitis. Viroclinics Biosciences – what it was called before the DDL purchase – was also well known for its specialist logistics infrastructure.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 24, 2020

From rare disease drug approvals to treatments involving immunotherapies and gene therapies and awarding of a Nobel Prize to the inventors of the gene-editing tool CRISPR, 2020 was a year of great activity and productivity despite the backdrop of the pandemic. CRISPR Gene Editing Inventors Win Nobel Prize.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 14, 2023

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) will honour the following cancer researchers, physician-scientists, advocates, and journalists during its annual meeting to be held April 14-19 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Dalla-Favera’s award lecture will be held on Tuesday April 18 at 3:45pm ET.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 16, 2023

From the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow, to Edinburgh Drug Discovery in the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Genetics and Cancer (IGC). Revvity is a global company, and we continue to develop our Cambridge-based expertise in cell and gene therapy to support the global pharmaceutical industry.

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