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Junk DNA: How the dark genome is changing RNA therapies

Drug Discovery World

Samir Ounzain , PhD, CEO & Co-Founder of HAYA Therapeutics, looks at how a better understanding of our DNA can lead to increased activity for RNA therapeutics. The whole world realised the power of RNA when the Covid-19 pandemic brought us the first mRNA-based vaccines.

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A new dawn of the genomic age: five areas set to be transformed in 2023

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2022 was a banner year for genomics. In March, the collaborative T2T consortium published the first complete telomere-to-telomere sequence of the human genome, filling in the last 8% of the 3 billion base pairs that make up our DNA.

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Leading innovators in CRISPR nucleases for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

Within the emerging innovation stage, cell therapy for ocular disorders, coronavirus vaccine components, and DNA polymerase compositions are disruptive technologies that are in the early stages of application and should be tracked closely. CRISPR nucleases serve as an important genome editing tool.

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Spider silk can stabilize cancer-suppressing protein

The Pharma Data

The p53 protein protects our cells from cancer and is an interesting target for cancer treatments. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now found an unusual way of stabilising the protein and making it more potent. The new protein also proved to be more stable than ordinary p53 and capable of killing cancer cells.

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How monkeypox evolves to evade drugs 

Drug Discovery World

Mutations have enabled the virus to grow stronger and smarter, evading antiviral drugs and vaccines. . The monkeypox virus is very similar to the vaccinia virus, which has been used as a vaccine to treat smallpox.

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This week in drug discovery (2-6 October)  

Drug Discovery World

In celebration of the Nobel Prize for Medicine going to two of the early proponents of mRNA technology for creating therapeutics, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, this week our round-up highlights the importance of genetics, genomics and gene editing in drug discovery.

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Leading innovators in mammalian expression vectors for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

Within the emerging innovation stage, cell therapy for ocular disorders, coronavirus vaccine components, and DNA polymerase compositions are disruptive technologies that are in the early stages of application and should be tracked closely. These systems include human and mouse cell lines, and even in vivo in live animals.

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