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In the News: June 2021 Regulatory and Development Updates

Camargo

The UCLA researchers measured monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) gene expression in tumors from cancer patients and found that high MAOA expression was associated with shorter survival times and turned to a mouse model to investigate these observations with promising results.

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Cell-penetrating peptides as a delivery system for oligonucleotides

Drug Discovery World

Oligonucleotides act on the RNA level through different molecular pathways, but there is a major drawback when using them as drugs: their poor bioavailability and cellular uptake. Ensuring that the CPP can escape this endosomal compartment is crucial for its bioavailability and bioactivity properties. cells, such as diabetes.

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Fibrosis research: Advances and challenges 

Drug Discovery World

PW: Through our exclusive access to one of the world’s largest fibrosis tissue biobanks, we have correlated disease progression to gene expression data, enabling us to discover novel targets on the pathway that drives the advanced stages of fibrotic disease. The gene expression data were generated by RNAseq on biopsies stored at -78°C.