Drug Discovery World

APRIL 17, 2024

DDW’s Diana Spencer speaks to Josh Mandel-Brehm , CEO of Massachusetts-based biotech CAMP4, to understand the role regulatory RNAs play in gene expression and how the founders overcame the challenge of launching a business based on brand new science. DS: You describe your therapeutics as RNA Amplifiers. How do they work?

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

From a general healthcare perspective, access to this sort of data is invaluable, but this is particularly noteworthy in that DNA tests have historically been limited in these regions on account of cost and availability of practitioners, services and resources.

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Pharma Mirror

APRIL 21, 2024

This represents an increasingly promising field of precision medicine, holding significant prospects for preventing and treating numerous challenging or genetic diseases. Scientists have been striving to optimize mRNA stability, immunogenicity, translation efficiency, and delivery systems to achieve efficient and safe mRNA delivery.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 30, 2024

Messenger RNA (mRNA) has come into focus within the drug discovery and development as an exciting tool to deliver genetic information. mRNA is a molecule made up of a single strand of ribonucleic acid (RNA). We believe it can now do the same for rare diseases.” “We

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XTalks

MAY 4, 2021

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the Whitehead Institute have developed a novel CRISPR-based tool called “CRISPRoff” that can switch off genes in human cells through epigenetic editing without altering the genetic sequence itself. Epigenetic Editing with CRISPR. pyogenes dCas9.

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XTalks

AUGUST 29, 2022

CRISPR is notable for engineering living cells, allowing scientists to edit, turn off, delete, or replace genes in a cell’s genome. This technology has powerful implications for therapeutic uses, such as replacing mutated or disease-causing genes or increasing the activity of cancer-fighting cells.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As we turn our focus to new potential applications and disease areas for the platform, scientists and companies must consider the potential life-saving impact on rare, inherited diseases, says Archana Gupta , PhD, staff scientist in genetic sciences at Thermo Fisher Scientific.

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