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Gene expression delivery tool ‘slides’ instructions into cells

Drug Discovery World

Researchers say they have successfully used a cell’s natural process for making proteins to ‘slide’ genetic instructions into a cell and produce critical proteins missing from those cells. . Splicing-linked expression design. Current minipromoter systems typically get the proteins in the right place about 5% of the time. .

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Combining the Powers of Single Cell Sequencing and AI in Understanding Disease Biology and Drug Development

XTalks

Single cell RNA sequencing technology has been extensively applied to understand heterogeneity among tumor cells, within the tumor microenvironment and during cell development. Visium Spatial Gene Expression Solution. On Visium Gene Expression slides, there are areas called capture areas, which have a lawn of barcode on them.

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AZ, Scorpion strike deal on elusive transcription factor targets in cancer

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AstraZeneca has expanded its efforts to develop new therapies targeting transcription factors – proteins that regulate processes in the cell that have become a hot topic for drug discovery in cancer and other diseases. It’s not the big pharma’s first foray into the transcription factor area.

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The Dose: DDW’s drug discovery highlights

Drug Discovery World

DDW highlights the most interesting global news and comments within the drug discovery and development sector this month. . Everyone enjoys a good news story and the drug discovery and development sector is no exception. Lately, there has been a lot of interest in microbiome research. Analysis . And finally… .

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Gene editing: beyond the hype

pharmaphorum

Since that discovery, a flurry of gene-editing focused biopharma companies have launched – including Intellia Therapeutics, CRISPR Therapeutics, Caribou Biosciences and Mammoth Biosciences – and the first drug therapies based on the technology are now in human testing for diseases like cancer. billion in funding.

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The 4 Biggest Cancer Biotech Acquisitions of 2021 So Far

XTalks

And as big pharma works on developing and growing their oncology portfolios, the rising trend of such mergers and acquisitions won’t be slowing down any time soon. Resolution has been a leader in the development of NGS-based companion diagnostics (CDx) test development and registration services for precision oncology.

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Gene Switch: A Novel Platform for Switching Genes On and Off

Roots Analysis

Further, the expression of any gene is dependent on the rate at which it is transcribed into mRNA and translated into proteins. There are various regulatory proteins or transcription factors that are responsible for affecting the transcription rate.

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