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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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Genomic Testing Cooperative Completes New York State Approval and Medicare (Palmetto) Coverage for all DNA and RNA Tests Offered for Molecular Profiling of Hematologic and Solid Tumors

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Genomic Testing Cooperative Completes New York State Approval and Medicare (Palmetto) Coverage for all DNA and RNA Tests Offered for Molecular Profiling of Hematologic and Solid Tumors Genomic Testing Cooperative Completes New York State Approval and Medicare (Palmetto) Coverage for … Continue reading →

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Investment fuels AI-driven development of breakthrough genomic medicines

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David Del Bourgo (CEO and co-founder, Whitelab Genomics) has always been passionate about introducing disruptive, innovative technologies to markets. We founded Whitelab Genomics after realising the potential to use data, data science, and AI in a more systematic way to develop genomic therapies,” Del Bourgo says.

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Why genomic healthcare data matters in the development of new therapies 

Drug Discovery World

Genomic healthcare data is critical to identify disease risk, ancestry, traits and response to medicines and aids in the development of new targeted therapies – precision medicines. In April 2003, after its launch in October 1990, the project was completed, generating the first sequence of the human genome. The origins .

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Verge Genomics takes AI-sourced drug for ALS into clinic

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Verge Genomics has joined a select group of biotechs who have taken a drug discovered and developed using artificial intelligence into human testing. The post Verge Genomics takes AI-sourced drug for ALS into clinic appeared first on.

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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.