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Clinical Microbiomics makes third acquisition in 18 months

Drug Discovery World

Clinical Microbiomics has acquired DNASense, a Danish microbiome clinical research organisation (CRO) specialised in long-read DNA and RNA sequencing technologies and bioinformatics. Long-read sequencing technologies offer several advantages over short-read methods.

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Key industry partnerships advancing drug discovery

Drug Discovery World

Otsuka Pharmaceutical and Ionis Pharmaceuticals Otsuka Pharmaceutical and RNA therapy company Ionis have entered into a licence agreement for Otsuka to acquire exclusive marketing rights to Ionis’ hereditary angioedema (HAE) drug candidate donidalorsen in Europe.

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STAT+: Foundation charges cancer patients $83,000 for unproven but promising experimental drug

STAT News

Cambridge-based Moderna recently reported encouraging results from a study of another type of personalized cancer vaccine it developed with the pharmaceutical giant Merck; it uses messenger RNA technology to target advanced melanoma. But more work remains before personalized vaccines  can be greenlighted.

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The Utility of Liquid Biopsy in Oncology Clinical Trials

XTalks

“Liquid biopsies have demonstrated promising activity in multiple clinical settings, but the great enthusiasm and expectations around them can be harmful if not adequately managed,” said Dr. El Mustapha Bahassi, PhD, Director, Clinical Laboratory Sciences, at the global clinical research organization (CRO) Medpace.

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How big data analytics can make personalised care a reality

Drug Discovery World

Johannes Goll, Global Head of Emmes’ Biomedical Data Science and Bioinformatics department, explains how big data analytics can deliver improved therapies and bring clinical research one step close to realising the potential of personalised care. Figure 2: Advanced data visualisation examples for transcriptomics data.

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Spatial Genomics, Transcriptomics and Proteomics Solutions – An Amelioration of Tissue Analytics

Roots Analysis

As a result, industry and non-industry stakeholders, are on the lookout for advanced platforms that can simultaneously capture the arrangement of multiple biomolecules (DNA, RNA, proteins and others) with single-cell or subcellular resolution. 70+ spatial Genomics solutions are developed by industry and non-industry players.

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