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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Scienmag

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

By changing gene expression first, some immunotherapies may work better, models show Credit: (courtesy of Hackensack Meridian Health) September 29, 2020 – Nutley, NJ – A one-two punch of changing gene expression, then deploying immune checkpoint inhibitors, shows promise in battling one of the most treatment-resistant types of cancer in (..)

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

For the first time, researchers describe how Rho protein really stops gene expression COLUMBUS, Ohio – New research has identified and described a cellular process that, despite what textbooks say, has remained elusive to scientists until now – precisely how the copying of genetic material that, once started, is properly turned off.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 2, 2023

A new paper has solved the 20-year mystery of how epigenetic modifications act as traffic lights to control gene expression and could ultimately speed up the development of a new class of epigenetic cancer drugs. But, until now, scientists lacked an understanding of what the chemical tag does, despite many years of research.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The research by a team of National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists found that people who took bumetanide, a generic drug usually used to treat heart failure and oedema, had a significantly lower prevalence of Alzheimer’s compared to those not taking the drug.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Scientists have discovered the link between gene expression, DNA methylation, and brain structural changes in depression, revealing new potential therapeutic targets. Parallel findings in humans underscored the involvement of interferon-related genes in major depressive disorder.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The MOATAI-VIR algorithm, developed by scientists at Emory University and Georgia Tech, was put through its paces in a study that showed it was able to predict 24 out of 26 clinical manifestations of COVID-19, including acute respiratory distress, blood clotting issues, cytokine storms, brain fog, and loss of smell or taste. .

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The Pharma Data

JUNE 14, 2023

Scientists discover small RNA that regulates bacterial infection People with weakened immune systems are at constant risk of infection. 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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Scienmag

APRIL 5, 2021

Study shows that tumor-suppressor protein p53 brings speckles and DNA together to boost gene expression PHILADELPHIA – A team led by scientists at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has illuminated the functions of mysterious structures in cells called “nuclear speckles,” showing that they can work in (..)

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Read more: First oral drug for postpartum depression approved in US The role of genetics In October, scientists discovered the link between gene expression, DNA methylation, and brain structural changes in depression, revealing new potential therapeutic targets.

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XTalks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A study from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) has revealed that women with Alzheimer’s do better than men with the disease due to a genetic advantage conferred by their extra X chromosome. The Active Gene. Increasing KDM6A expression in male mice led them to be more resilient to the effects of amyloid beta plaques.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Oxford-based Nucleome – which is developing an atlas of the dark genome and is focusing initially on finding drugs for autoimmune diseases – notes that the region contains 90% of disease-associated genetic changes, including autoimmune disorders like multiple sclerosis, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis.

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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. It’s a great tool for controlling gene expression.”.

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The Pharma Data

JULY 11, 2021

Scientists at the Universities of Würzburg and Marburg have now succeeded for the first time in experimentally demonstrating that bacterial metabolites are able to increase the cytotoxic activity of certain immune cells and thus positively influence the efficiency of tumour therapies. The immune system is mentioned particularly frequently.

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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. These modifications regulate gene expression without altering the sequence or structure of DNA.

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 10, 2021

bluebird bio is to ask regulators to restart clinical studies of its LentiGlobin for sickle cell disease, after an investigation concluded that a case of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) was “very unlikely” to be caused by the gene therapy. The post bluebird seeks gene therapy trial restart after cancer scare appeared first on.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 24, 2020

However, for virologists like Lori Frappier, PhD, professor in the department of molecular genetics at the University of Toronto, the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 was less of a surprise and more of an inevitability. CRISPR Gene Editing Inventors Win Nobel Prize. The illness was later named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

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The Pharma Data

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Born in 1970, the British and American research scientist has been Director of the Department of Microbiome Research at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen since 2016. Before, she was associate professor at Cornell University in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The study was led by scientists at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH, who successfully identified differences in gene activity in the brains of people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). . “The

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Roots Analysis

AUGUST 31, 2023

At present, extensive studies are being conducted to understand the interaction between nutrients and gene expression at the molecular level, to determine the effect of a specific nutrient and dietary regime on human health. It is worth mentioning that more than 50 genes in a human body are associated with obesity.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 30, 2024

Messenger RNA (mRNA) has come into focus within the drug discovery and development as an exciting tool to deliver genetic information. Proteins perform myriad functions within the human body and scientists have estimated that there are at least 20,000 canonical proteins that we know about.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 14, 2023

DDW Editor Reece Armstrong speaks to Nautilus Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Parag Mallick , about the company’s recent collaboration which aims to uncover the proteins that could be behind a rare and fatal childhood cancer. And whilst proteomics isn’t a new field of study, it has largely been left in the hands of proteomics scientists. “If

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Even as methods in DNA synthesis continue to advance, scientists’ reliance on third-party companies for synthesising DNA creates a bottleneck, impeding research timelines. . “If If you want to order gene-length sequences, rather than short oligos for PCR, the waiting times are around two or three weeks at least. “If

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A case in point is the emerging omics and other high-throughput laboratory technologies that allow simultaneous profiling of genetic alterations in combination with profiling thousands of molecules in plasma, cell populations, or single cells. This could be expanded to assessing predictors at baseline.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 18, 2023

Incorporating in vivo pooled CRISPR screens has allowed for the interrogation of thousands of genetic perturbations in cells, leading to the determination of the involvement of molecules (PTPN2, ADAR1, or DHX37) in immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) responsiveness and T cell activation.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 23, 2023

Increasing interest in CRISPR-Cas gene editing systems over recent years has delivered innovative developments in precision genome engineering technologies, holding enormous potential for applications across the healthcare sector. Single-cell RNA-sequencing of differentiating iPS cells reveals dynamic genetic effects on gene expression.

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The Pharma Data

MAY 15, 2021

All too often, it is lifestyle factors – the things we do day to day – that determines whether a particular gene switches on to create actual illness. The scientific study of how to undo genetic illnesses – like HCT – is called epigenetics. It’s because certain genes act one way on some people… and another way on other people.

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