pharmaphorum

MAY 11, 2021

Flagship Pioneering, the VC fund run by Moderna’s co-founder Noubar Afeyan has launched a new biotech Laronde , with an ambitious plan to create a new class of drugs based on Endless RNA. Called eRNA for short, this class of medicines is programmable and can continuously express therapeutic proteins inside the body.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 3, 2023

Matthew Clark , CEO of X-Chem, looks at what the future could hold for DNA-encoded library (DEL) technology. In the 13 years since it was first described, DNA-encoded library (DEL) technology has become a firmly established approach to small molecule hit generation in drug discovery. cytokine-receptor disrupters).

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

When cells copy DNA to produce RNA transcripts, they include only some chunks of genetic material known as exons and throw out the rest. The resulting product is a fully-mature RNA molecule, which can be used as a template to build a protein.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Startup Rome Therapeutics has raised $77 million in second-round financing to help mine sequences of DNA – which were dismissed for years as ‘junk’ – for hidden treasure. Most drug discovery programmes target the roughly 2% of the human genome which encodes for protein.

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XTalks

JUNE 20, 2022

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, a leading RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics biopharmaceutical company, announced it received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its RNAi therapeutic Amvuttra (vutrisiran) for the treatment of the polyneuropathy of hereditary transthyretin-mediated (ATTR) amyloidosis in adults.

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Scienmag

APRIL 27, 2022

CHAPEL HILL, NC – Inside embryonic cells, specific proteins control the rate at which genetic information is transcribed from DNA to messenger RNA – a crucial regulatory step before proteins are created. Then, organs develop and hopefully function properly.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 5, 2021

Durham, North Carolina-based Ribometrix announced a strategic collaboration deal with Genentech , a Roche company, to identify and advance novel RNA-targeted small molecule therapeutics. Targeting RNA is believed to be a way to develop therapeutics for so-called undruggable proteins. The first identifies the 3D RNA motifs.

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Scienmag

JANUARY 25, 2022

Lipids and RNA are two of the essential building blocks of cells. Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a versatile molecule. On the one hand, like DNA, RNA encodes genetic information which is essential for life to replicate itself. On the other hand, like proteins, RNA molecules carry out chemical reactions.

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 7, 2022

By combining CRISPR technology with a protein designed with artificial intelligence (AI), it is possible to awaken individual dormant genes by disabling the chemical “off switches” that silence them. Ruohola-Baker and Levy then fused this designed protein with a disabled version of a protein called Cas9. it can be reawakened.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 26, 2024

More importantly, it also highlighted that significant challenges remain in selecting the right therapies for the right patients despite the progress made through genomic testing and implementation of circulating tumour (ct) DNA analyses.

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STAT News

AUGUST 17, 2022

  The hunt for cancer cures has, to a large degree, been a hunt for biomarkers — DNA, peptides, RNA, proteins or more — that might set tumor cells apart from healthy tissue. On Target is a recurring feature from STAT that dives deep into the most promising drug targets in oncology. 

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Scienmag

APRIL 14, 2021

In the cell nucleus histones play a crucial role packaging DNA into chromatin. Histones are however very sticky to both DNA and RNA, so to ensure they are transported to the cell nucleus after synthesis and bind to the right portion of DNA to organize the chromatin, they are guarded by complexes of histone chaperones. […].

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Scienmag

JUNE 29, 2022

Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most common form of muscular dystrophy, characterized by progressive muscle wasting and weakness and caused by abnormally repetitive DNA segments that are transcribed into toxic molecules of RNA. Rett […].

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Scienmag

MAY 5, 2021

Transcription is a vital process in bacterial cell, where genetic information in DNA is transcribed to RNA for the translation of proteins that perform cellular function. Hence, transcription serves […].

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rapid and accurate DNA synthesis . Conventional DNA synthesis, typically used for making sequences such as primers, employs phosphoramidite chemistry, a method that was developed in the 1980s and is still considered the gold standard for DNA synthesis. .

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 23, 2022

It functions as a molecular scissor by slicing long chains of virus’ polypeptide proteins into smaller component proteins. These viruses can develop rapid defences at the cellular level by orchestrating these layers, or folding mechanisms, in viral proteins so the key is to find a way to shut them down.”.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 2, 2023

But the new findings answer a fundamental and longstanding question – how epigenetic proteins regulate the processes of transcription and gene expression, through which our genes are read and translated into proteins.

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Scienmag

MAY 7, 2021

Study describes new mechanism for terminating transcription of DNA into RNA in bacteria Credit: Babitzke Laboratory and Dani Zemba, Penn State The protein, known as NusG, pauses the transcription machinery at specific DNA sequences to facilitate what is called “intrinsic termination” and prevent unwanted transcription that could disrupt (..)

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 2, 2023

Steve Wowk , VP, Business Unit and General Management of Integrated DNA Technologies, shared with DDW the value of CRISPR-Cas9 in drug discovery. In an effort to defend themselves against viral infection, bacterial cells capture and copy DNA fragments of bacteriophages into their genome. CRISPR libraries: Why do we need them?

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Scienmag

AUGUST 20, 2020

Some of these structures, such as those found in DNA, RNA and proteins, are formed through complex molecular interactions that are not easily duplicated by inorganic materials. ITHACA, N.Y. – Biological systems come in all shapes, sizes and structures.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 17, 2024

DS: CAMP4 leverages research from co-founder Richard Young on how regulatory RNA (regRNA) molecules control the expression of genes. JMB: Regulatory RNAs (or regRNAS) are molecules that directly control the expression of nearby protein-coding genes. DS: You describe your therapeutics as RNA Amplifiers. How do they work?

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 20, 2023

Precision medicine uses information about an individual’s genes, proteins, and environment to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases, including cancer. Differences in DNA, RNA, and protein can be identified in individual tissue samples, and even in individual cells.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

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. The structural proteins include the capsid, pre-membrane/membrane proteins and envelope (E) proteins.

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Camargo

JULY 27, 2021

It is a comprehensive term which encompasses a large variety of therapy products including viral and bacterial vectors, plasmid DNA, human gene editing technology, and patient-specific cellular gene therapy. For example, it is beneficial to administer RNA treatments for some lung diseases directly to the disease site through inhalation.

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Scienmag

MAY 27, 2021

Capturing how RNA polymerase enzymes kick off transcription On scales too small for our eyes to see, the business of life happens through the making of proteins, which impart to our cells both structure and function.

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Epigenetics, often referred to as the ‘software’ of gene regulation, encompasses chemical modifications to DNA, such as methylation, and modifications of other proteins that organise DNA in the nucleus, known as histones, as well as RNA.

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BioTech 365

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Flerie Invest AB leads $52m acquisition of Swedish Biopharma Facility from Charles River Flerie Invest AB leads $52m acquisition of Swedish Biopharma Facility from Charles River Major expansion of DNA, RNA, protein and advanced therapy R&D and GMP-manufacture STOCKHOLM, Sweden, … Continue reading →

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 18, 2023

Rolf Turk , Senior Manager, Genomics Medicine at Integrated DNA Technologies, examines how CRISPR is being used to enhance cancer therapies. CRISPR diagnostics have successfully detected various pathogens, including RNA viruses (eg. parvovirus B19, Flaviviridae, Ebola, and Coronaviridae), DNA viruses (e.g.,

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

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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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 26, 2023

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. Just one mutation can lead to a complete change in protein formation. So, when it comes to proteomics, accuracy is vital.

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Roots Analysis

AUGUST 15, 2023

Biomanufacturing utilizing cell free systems is an emerging area of research that enables the synthesis of different biomolecules, such as cytotoxic proteins, fusion proteins, post translationally modified proteins, antibodies, enzymes, vaccines and other complex proteins, without the use of living cells.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The RNA Revolution: From mRNA Vaccines to RNA Editing. The age of RNA is officially here, and it’s here to stay as more than a passing life science trend. RNA technology is not new nor has its potential been surprising. RNA in the Making. So why did this perceived RNA ‘revolution’ take so long?

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XTalks

AUGUST 10, 2021

A porous membrane was engineered to capture RNA on its surface. A CRISPR-based reaction generates a fluorescent signal in the presence of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in a saliva sample. When these probes are cut along with the target sequence, a fluorescent signal is produced, indicating that the target has been successfully cut.

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 16, 2023

Additionally, patients whose cancer has spread but who have not yet received chemotherapy, and whose primary tumours have markers of faults in genes linked to DNA repair pathways, tend to respond better to carboplatin. “Our findings paint a complex picture – with many, dynamic factors driving how tumours respond to treatment.”

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 18, 2023

A combination of the PARP inhibitor olaparib (Lynparza) and the investigational ATR inhibitor ceralasertib showed clinical benefit in paediatric patients with solid tumours exhibiting DNA replication stress and/or DNA repair deficiencies, according to new data.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 14, 2023

DDW Editor Reece Armstrong speaks to Nautilus Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Parag Mallick , about the company’s recent collaboration which aims to uncover the proteins that could be behind a rare and fatal childhood cancer. To do this, Nautilus will useits protein analysis platform to provide TGen with data on the proteins involved in DPIG.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This presentation covered three primary drivers for a protein expression model: speed, cost and sustainability. “It The next presentation attended in this track was the keynote presentation, which was given by Kate Smith, PhD, Head of UK Protein & Cell Sciences at GSK. GSK has developed high-throughput mammalian and E.

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