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World RNA Day: What impact RNA it had on drug discovery?  

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1 August was first chosen as World RNA Day in 2018 as a play on AUG (adenine, uracil and guanine), a triple sequence of RNA (called a codon) that initiates protein synthesis by the cell. Since then, it has been observed to publicise the importance of this molecule in the generation of proteins in the body.

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Can liquid biopsies transform precision medicine?

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Brett Swansiger, Chief Commercial Officer at ANGLE discusses the importance of liquid biopsies in precision medicine trials for cancer. Furthermore, oncology clinical trials are frequently challenged by low enrolment rates, failure to achieve primary endpoints, study design complexity and limited funding 5.

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Pfizer drops the blue pill, kicks off 2021 with new DNA logo

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Pharma companies are always talking about moving ‘beyond the pill’, and Pfizer’s new brand identity embodies that – it’s decades old pill-like logo has been replaced with a DNA double helix that it says reflects its commitment to breakthrough science. Encoded within a successful emblem is a company’s DNA – its history, its future.

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Uptick in Clinical Trial Complexity: How Can You Achieve Your Clinical Trial Objectives Faster?

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Whether it’s for a treatment for a chronic ambulatory condition, precision medicine or cell and gene therapy, there is a massive uptick in clinical trial complexity. It’s important to make sure that with this increase in clinical trial complexity, we don’t make our trials overly burdensome to sites or patients,” says Markham.

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Investment fuels AI-driven development of breakthrough genomic medicines

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Genomic medicine is a rapidly growing space in which researchers use the information in a person’s genes to identify and administer medical treatment.”. The evolving field of genomic medicine. There are two components to genomic medicine, known as the payload and the vector.

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Verve starts trials of cholesterol drug in test of base editing technique

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Verve Therapeutics has started dosing patients in a phase 1b trial of its in vivo gene-editing drug for high cholesterol, designed to permanently switch off the PCSK9 gene with a one-shot treatment. Through base editing, drugs replace single nucleotide in the DNA strand with another, without making double-strand breaks (DSBs) in the gene.

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Predictive diagnostics: closing the precision medicine gap

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Precision medicine promises a paradigm shift to confidently match the right patients to the right treatment at the right time. In the cancer space alone over the last five years, clinical trials have increased 500% for new drugs and new drug combinations. In pursuit of this, the number of new therapeutics in development has boomed.