pharmaphorum

JUNE 13, 2022

Canary Wharf’s bid to become a new hub for the life sciences sector in the UK has been given a boost following the decision by Genomics England to relocate to the development. The new building is just the first project for the initiative, located on a 3.3

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 1, 2022

to build a scalable data, analytics, and infrastructure platform This collaboration aims at capturing translational disease insights from large external healthcare biobanks and maximizing value of data for drug discovery and precision medicine. Boehringer Ingelheim partners with Lifebit Biotech, Ltd. More information at www.lifebit.ai.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 19, 2023

Evan Floden , CEO of Seqera Labs examines how data sharing platforms are impacting cancer and genomics research. The tide has been turning in the worlds of diagnostics and drug development. A recent flurry of announcements indicates increasing interest and trust from major public health organisations in the power of genomics.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Although early accounts of an illness akin to leukaemia can be traced back to Ancient Greece, the first official description of blood cancer didn’t appear until 1832, when British pathologist and pioneer of preventative medicine Thomas Hodgkin used the controversial concept of micrology to identify the abnormalities in the lymphatic system.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A new study led by Medical Research Council-funded researchers from UCL has found that tailoring the analysis of whole genome sequencing to individual patients could double the diagnostic rates of rare diseases. . Consequently, the UK has established itself at the forefront of diagnostic whole genome sequencing. Context .

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 25, 2021

The COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer) database, operated by the Wellcome Sanger Institute, grew out of the work of the Cancer Genome Project and has been gathering data on mutations associated with specific cancers for almost 17 years.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 13, 2024

Thanks to significant investment by the government into research and development, Singapore has become a leading centre for biomedical sciences in Asia. Following this, a medical innovation and development centre, Biopolis Hub, was opened in 2005. UK-based molecular diagnostics group Yourgene operates in Singapore.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 24, 2020

Those infected develop an immune response as their bodies fight off the virus which helps to protect them against it returning. “This is a very rare example of reinfection,” said Brendan Wren, professor of microbial pathogenesis, at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The detail remains to be written,” he said, explaining that all four nations would now develop their own action plans for the implementation of the framework. “We Beyond the framework we are also currently developing proposals for an innovative medicines fund,” said Lord Bethell, describing it as an extension of the Cancer Drugs Fund. “It

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Alchemab, on the other hand, has developed a highly differentiated platform which enables the identification of novel drug targets and therapeutics by analysis of patient antibody repertoires, drawing from the expertise in Cambridge to progress the company’s mission to build a broad pipeline of protective therapeutics for hard-to-treat diseases.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 6, 2024

The development of effective new disease-modifying treatments in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders has been hindered by their inherent genetic complexity, environmental influences, and clinical variability.

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The Pharma Data

APRIL 6, 2021

and European Union (EU) approvals, will also be presented, including long-term outcomes in patients with TRK fusion cancer receiving larotrectinib and data from the 100,000 Genomes Project analyzing the prognostic factor for survival for patients with tumors that harbor a neurotrophic receptor tyrosine kinase ( NTRK ) gene fusion.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The field of medicine is riddled with challenges pertaining to diagnosis and finding treatment therapies for rare diseases. With only <10% of the affected people having treatment for their rare condition, the question remains – what impedes the process of developing a treatment for such diseases?

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Roots Analysis

AUGUST 31, 2023

Recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies have led to significant developments in healthcare-focused research on precision medicine and diagnostics. Nutrigenomics is the science studying the relationship between human genome, nutrition and health.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

She developed fine for the first six months of her life,” he says, “but then she stopped smiling, she stopped giggling, and stopped taking an interest in her surroundings. Everything the 100,000 Genomes Project does has to be rubber-stamped by the patients”. She had a glazed look in her eyes, almost like she was blind.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 15, 2022

The first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome was published 1 April 2022 in a special issue of the journal Science 1. While The Human Genome Project mapped about 92% of the human genome two decades ago, sequencing the last 8% of the genome proved highly challenging.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

She developed fine for the first six months of her life,” he says, “but then she stopped smiling, she stopped giggling, and stopped taking an interest in her surroundings. Everything the 100,000 Genomes Project does has to be rubber-stamped by the patients”. She had a glazed look in her eyes, almost like she was blind.

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XTalks

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The Human Genome Project recently marked 20 years since the publication of the first full sets of human genomic sequences, an endeavor that spanned well over a decade. Today, new next-generation sequencing technologies allow for the sequencing of complex genomes within just a day or two.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

AUGUST 26, 2008

As understanding of biological systems has forged ahead, pharmaceutical companies have made increasing use of biotechnology in discovering and manufacturing new medicines. The dynamic has now changed as many big companies have now acquired biotechnology companies or have developed ‘biotechnology divisions’ of their own.

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