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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XTalks

MAY 4, 2021

The tool targets the epigenome, the collection of DNA modifications in a cell such as methylation and post-translational histone modifications. These modifications regulate gene expression without changing the sequence or structure of DNA. DNA methylation occurs endogenously in all mammalian cells in response to various stimuli.

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XTalks

APRIL 6, 2022

Cancerous cells and tumors release small fragments of DNA into the bloodstream called circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA). Scientists at the University of Cambridge evaluated the use of a personalized blood test that detects ctDNA to help predict the relapse risk of lung cancer.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 11, 2023

The molecule, known as lissodendoric acid A, appears to counteract other molecules that can damage DNA, RNA and proteins and even destroy whole cells.

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XTalks

MAY 4, 2021

The tool targets the epigenome, the collection of DNA modifications in a cell such as methylation and post-translational histone modifications. These modifications regulate gene expression without altering the sequence or structure of DNA. DNA methylation occurs endogenously in all mammalian cells in response to various stimuli.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 23, 2023

Scientists from Korea and the US have unveiled the mechanism of radioresistance in GBM cells, identifying therapeutic targets to overcome radioresistance. Researchers have discovered a clinical drug that sensitises glioblastoma (GBM) cells to radiotherapy and could replace the current standard of care.

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Pharma Mirror

APRIL 21, 2024

With the rapid development of biotechnology and molecular medicine, the introduction of mRNA as a vaccine or therapeutic agent enables the production of almost any desired functional protein/peptide within the human body.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Their technology is based on synthetic messenger RNA – short for ribose nucleic acid – which is a short transcript of a longer DNA code. As it’s just a messenger molecule, it does not affect the body’s own genetic code when it is injected as a vaccine – but what it does do is instruct cells to code for copies of a certain protein.

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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. Its job is to carry coding information that is essential to the translation and processing of functional proteins.

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 1, 2023

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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XTalks

DECEMBER 24, 2020

After being identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei in China, medical officials and scientists got to work to isolate and identify the novel virus that they observed to be causing a new respiratory illness. Most antibody drugs and vaccines have been developed to target parts of the spike protein.

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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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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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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A company within this ecosystem is STORM Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotechnology company creating novel small molecule therapies that inhibit RNA modifying enzymes (RME) for use in oncology and other diseases. Experts speak DDW asked a range of drug discovery experts where they thought the drug discovery expertise happening in the UK.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 11, 2023

Now, with the growth of publicly available genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics databases, the ability to quickly carry out large-scale DNA, RNA, and protein screenings, and the availability of massive sets of de-identified patient data, the amount of high-value, analysable data has reached enormous proportions.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Ahead of protein and antibody engineering conference PEGS Europe 2024 in Lisbon, DDW’s Megan Thomas looks at what to expect from each track of the annual biologics technology meeting. Ali Madani, PhD, Founder and CEO, Profluent Bio, on: ‘Protein engineering with large language models’.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Dr Jennifer Harbottle, senior scientist in the R&D Base Editing team of PerkinElmer’s Horizon Discovery business, looks at progress made in the realms of biotechnology and next-generation diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics, including the application of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in developing and refining cell therapies.

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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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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. These mutated proteins then reprogramme the epigenome, from which the cancer develops.

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 10, 2022

Later, scientists took advantage of antibodies’ natural tendency to seek out specific antigens and created antibody therapies that guide T cells towards the cells they are supposed to destroy. To overcome this evasion tactic, the CAR protein was developed to recognise other markers on cancer 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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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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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Significant differences among COVID-19 diagnostic tests are resulting in inaccurate results that sometimes put populations at risk or quarantine people needlessly, contributing to skepticism about pronouncements from scientists and public health authorities. Other techniques are primed to replace it.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

He discussed how microfluidics assisted synthesis and biologics testing, high throughput automated platforms, functional multiomics screening, artificial intelligence and machine learning have accelerated the development of protein and RNA-based therapeutics.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Today, spatial omics technologies enable imaging-based identification of cells in their native tissue context while simultaneously detecting hundreds of RNAs or tens of protein markers in the same cells. The first step to reach this goal will be to generate protein and RNA data from the same sample.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Scientists in Israel have used the CRISPR Cas-9 gene editing system to destroy cancerous cells in mice without damaging other cells. To conduct the research, the scientists used hundreds of mice with two of the most aggressive forms of cancer: glioblastoma and metastatic ovarian cancer. Photo courtesy of Science Advances.

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XTalks

AUGUST 2, 2023

Johnson & Johnson’s Top 5 Best-Selling Drugs of 2022: 1) Stelara (ustekinumab) Stelara is an immunosuppressant biologic therapy that blocks the IL-12 and IL-23 proteins that play a role in plaque psoriasis and Crohn’s disease. The monoclonal antibody targets CD20, a protein found on the surface of B lymphocytes (B cells).

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 23, 2023

Such stocks have already been created using conventional CRISPR-Cas9 approaches; however, cells edited with CRISPR-Cas9 have an increased risk of random insertions and deletions (indels) which are introduced during a cell’s intrinsic DNA repair process following a DNA double strand break (DSB) from Cas9.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 13, 2021

.” The Johnson & Johnson vaccine also would be hardier than either of the already approved vaccines because it relies on DNA technology rather than messenger RNA to prompt an immune system response. A safety investigation determined that the illness was not related to the vaccine.

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XTalks

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The company’s candidate vaccine, mRNA-1273, is a synthetic messenger RNA that encodes the stabilized SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. The University of Oxford/AstraZeneca partnership, in turn, is testing a viral-vectored coronavirus vaccine that again expresses the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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