Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A large research project, led by scientists at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Weill Cornell Medical College, has found that whole genome sequencing (WGS) can provide much more information about classic Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) than exome sequencing, (..)

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

— An antioxidant found in green tea may increase levels of p53, a natural anti-cancer protein, known as the “guardian of the genome” for its ability to repair DNA damage or destroy cancerous cells. Research offers new lead for cancer drug discovery Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y.

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Scienmag

MARCH 12, 2021

Credit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA — (March 12, 2021) — Scientists at The Wistar Institute identified a new function of ADAR1, a protein responsible for RNA editing, discovering that the ADAR1p110 isoform regulates genome […].

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 4, 2022

Unlocking the secrets of the human genome has long been an ambitious pursuit for researchers around the world. Today, the landscape of genomic testing and research is rapidly progressing, with significant scientific and technological advances driving a paradigm shift in the understanding of oncology at a molecular level.

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Scienmag

APRIL 15, 2021

Epigenetic regulator HPI1a drives de novo genome reorganization in early Drosophila embryos Credit: MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, F. Instead, it is folded in a very organized way by the help of different proteins to establish a unique spatial organization of the genetic information. This […].

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Scienmag

JUNE 28, 2021

Small molecule designed to inhibit protein aggregation associated with Alzheimer’s disease and Type II diabetes is shown to effectively reactivate a critical tumor suppressor protein inactivated in more than one-half of all human cancers Fast facts 1) Dubbed the ‘guardian of the genome’, p53 is a tumor suppressor protein that prevents (..)

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 17, 2023

Columbia researchers have shined new light on how the "dark" part of the genome allows cancer cells to be detected by the immune system, which could lead to better immunotherapies.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Genes code for proteins – the building blocks of life. of our entire DNA Very little is known about the function of regions of DNA outside our genes – termed the ‘dark genome’ A Cambridge-led team recently discovered that proteins are produced by over […].

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 7, 2022

By combining CRISPR technology with a protein designed with artificial intelligence (AI), it is possible to awaken individual dormant genes by disabling the chemical “off switches” that silence them. PRC2 can be blocked with chemicals, but they are imprecise, affecting PRC2 function throughout the genome. it can be reawakened.

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BioTech 365

JUNE 4, 2021

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: The cut and restore protein trick: Self-excising designer proteins.Our proteome is much bigger than our genome because one gene produces several variants of proteins called protein isoforms, … Continue reading →

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Comprised of only 29 proteins (compared to our 400,000), with a genome 1/200,000 the size of ours, […].

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pharmaphorum

MAY 12, 2022

Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Celgene unit has clearly been impressed by progress in its four-year-old alliance with Evotec on protein degradation. These small drug compounds destabilise proteins by bringing them into proximity with enzymes called E3 ubiquitin ligases that cause them to be broken down. billion partnership last week. .

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 15, 2022

The p53 protein protects our cells from cancer and is an interesting target for cancer treatments. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now found an unusual way of stabilising the protein and making it more potent. The new protein also proved to be more stable than ordinary p53 and capable of killing cancer cells.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Professor Norikazu Ichihashi and his colleagues at the University of Tokyo have successfully induced gene expression from a DNA, characteristic of all life, and evolution through continuous replication extracellularly using cell-free materials alone, such as nucleic acids and proteins for the first time.

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 23, 2022

Polymerase is a viral protein that directs how Ebola virus replicates its genome as it infects new hosts. The researchers discovered that Ebola virus polymerase hijacks a cellular protein called GSPT1. To treat Ebola virus infections, researchers are taking a close look at a key piece of the virus: polymerase.

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

‘Exploring one of the biggest challenges facing genomics today – understanding genetic variants’ SEATTLE (February 22, 2021) – Global experts performing leading edge research in precision medicine, functional genomics, protein science, and variant interpretation and prediction will share their expertise and insights April 5-7 (..)

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Scienmag

MAY 11, 2021

MIT researchers have determined the virus’ protein-coding gene set and analyzed new mutations’ likelihood of helping the virus adapt. CAMBRIDGE, MA — In early 2020, a few months after the Covid-19 pandemic began, scientists were able to sequence the full genome of the virus that causes the infection, SARS-CoV-2.

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BioTech 365

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: A ‘genomic rosetta stone’ for discovering the rules of gene regulation.As

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BioTech 365

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: Genomics, gene-editing and the Blue Revolution.Aquaculture—the farming of fish and shellfish, is the world’s fastest growing primary industry.

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Scienmag

MARCH 9, 2022

— Each simple RNA virus has a genome, its “native RNA.” This genome dictates how the virus replicates in cells to eventually cause disease. The genome also has the code for making a capsid, the protein shell of a virus that encapsulates the genome and protects it like a nanocontainer. RIVERSIDE, Calif.

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BioTech 365

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: Machine learning offers high-definition glimpse of how genomes organize in single cells.Within the microscopic boundaries of a single human cell, the intricate folds and arrangements of protein … Continue reading → (..)

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 23, 2022

It functions as a molecular scissor by slicing long chains of virus’ polypeptide proteins into smaller component proteins. These viruses can develop rapid defences at the cellular level by orchestrating these layers, or folding mechanisms, in viral proteins so the key is to find a way to shut them down.”.

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Scienmag

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Credit: Matt Jaremko/CSHL Joshua-Tor lab The most basic activity of a living thing is to turn one copy of its genome into two copies, crafting one cell into two. That replication event begins with a set of proteins–the Origin of Replication Complex (ORC).

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Scienmag

AUGUST 11, 2020

Researchers from Skoltech, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and the Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems have studied the genomes of some 200 strains of bacteria to determine which proteins in the ribosome, part of the key cell machinery, can be safely lost and why.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 4, 2023

The p53 gene is one of the most important in the human genome: the only role of the p53 protein that this gene encodes is to sense when a tumor is forming and to kill it. While the gene was discovered more than four decades ago, researchers have so far been unsuccessful at determining exactly how it works.

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

. Monte Rosa Therapeutics has raised $96m in Series B financing to support further develop of its pipeline of small-molecule protein degraders. The company, which was originally formed as a spinout from Cancer Research UK-funded research at the Institute of Cancer Research, specialises in targeted protein degradation.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A new stem cell model, discovered by researchers exploring the human genome, will help scientists to map out the key genomic changes during early development. Indeed, this latest discovery follows scientists uncovering the genome stage of development in mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) a decade ago.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

It contains the information for the production of 27 proteins. This is not much compared to the possible 40,000 kinds of protein that a […].

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Scienmag

APRIL 15, 2021

Team of Japanese and European scientists identify a novel genetic mitochondrial disorder by analyzing DNA samples from three distinct families Credit: Fujita Health University DNA ligase proteins, which facilitate the formation of bonds between separate strands of DNA, play critical roles in the replication and maintenance of DNA.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 20, 2023

In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes using the gene editing system to modify two bases in the mouse genome to prevent hyperactivation of a protein that can lead to heart disease.

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The key is a double occupation by two methyl groups on the DNA packaging protein histone H3 (H3K4me2). A research team from Cologne has discovered that a change in the DNA structure – more precisely in the chromatin – plays a decisive role in the recovery phase after DNA damage. The discovery was made by […].

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Bioengineer

JANUARY 16, 2024

This mutation hinders the drug’s binding to the mutant EGFR protein. Osimertinib, however, can covalently bind to the T790M and cysteine-797 (C797) residue at the protein’s ATP binding site, overcoming resistance mechanisms. T790M loss has been linked to earlier resistance and poorer survival in other cohorts.

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STAT News

APRIL 10, 2023

So we were excited when we were referred to a pediatric geneticist who offered Gabrielle whole exome sequencing , which sequences all of the protein-coding regions of the genome, to determine whether there was a genetic cause. Read the rest…

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Innovation S-curve for the pharmaceutical industry CRISPR nuclease is a key innovation area in pharmaceutical development CRISPR, which refers to clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, are bacteriophage-derived DNA sequences that had previously infected the prokaryote and are found in the genomes of bacteria and archaea.

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Scienmag

MAY 7, 2021

The two meters of -stretched- DNA contained in human cells are continuously twisting and untwisting to give access to genetic information: when a gene is expressed to generate a protein, the two strands of DNA are separated to give access to all the machinery necessary for this expression, resulting in an excessive accumulation of coiling […]. (..)

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

20, 2020) — For more than a decade, scientists studying epigenetics have used a powerful method called ChIP-seq to map changes in proteins and other critical regulatory factors across the genome. Credit: Courtesy of Van Andel Institute GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The rapid scientific advancements that followed the mapping of the human genome have revealed just how staggeringly complex the world of genetics is. We now know that proteins are not just the products of genes, but that they also interact with genes, influencing and regulating the rhythm of their expression.

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