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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. The acquisition adds long-read DNA and RNA sequencing technologies to Clinical Microbiomics’ multi-omics technologies for the microbiome field.

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BioTuring enters collaboration to enable detailed single-cell RNA research

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The collaboration aims to “close the gap between single-cell RNA sequencing wet-lab services and single-cell data analysis solutions,” which will allow scientists to study the finest details that can be hard to access. Research Instruments is the main distributor for genomic and life science research products in the region.

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New approach to diagnosing genetic diseases using RNA sequencing increases yield

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In the world of rare genetic diseases, exome and genome sequencing are two powerful tools used to make a diagnosis. A recent addition to the toolkit, RNA sequencing, has been demonstrated to help researchers narrow down disease candidate variants identified first on exome and genome sequencing.

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The use-case for NGS

Drug Discovery World

DDW Editor Reece Armstrong speaks to Dr Darrell Green , Lecturer in RNA Biology Biomedical Research Centre Norwich Medical School University of East Anglia, about his work using next generation sequencing (NGS) and the areas the technology is impacting within drug discovery and development.

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The microbiome in precision medicine

Drug Discovery World

With 100-fold the number of genes in the human genome 1 , this microbial collection is a rich genetic signature of clinical significance that we have only recently gained the tools to explore. Collectively, these systems biology bioinformatic puzzles often require partnerships to solve.

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Sensyne, Oxford University deploy AI to find asthma targets

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The three-year project – led by respiratory medicine expert Dr Timothy Hinks from the Oxford University Respiratory Medicine Unit – will use whole-genome sequencing of around 500 patients with severe asthma, comparing their gene sequences with control subjects who don’t have asthma.

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PanOmics: Advancing drug discovery

Drug Discovery World

While we are using standard commercially available processes for genomics, we have invested massively into high-throughput and high-resolution transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics methods. The technologies cover the whole range of biomolecules from genes to protein to metabolites.

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