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

MARCH 17, 2021

An international team of scientists from the University of Turku, Finland and PennState University, USA have solved a long-standing mystery of how living organisms distinguish RNA and DNA building blocks during gene expression paving the way for the design of new antiviral drugs. All cellular […].

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 2, 2023

Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London have revealed how a key epigenetic signal called H3K4me3 determines when and how DNA should be read and translated into proteins within our cells. But, until now, scientists lacked an understanding of what the chemical tag does, despite many years of research.

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XTalks

AUGUST 29, 2022

CRISPR is notable for engineering living cells, allowing scientists to edit, turn off, delete, or replace genes in a cell’s genome. Viral vectors have traditionally been used in gene editing where the shells of viruses carry the template DNA into cells, but this method has its disadvantages.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Singapore scientists uncover potential role of long non-coding RNAs in pancreatic cancer Credit: From Figure 4 in Liu, S., doi:10.1186/s13073-020-00788-5… SINGAPORE, 3 Nov 2020 – Long RNA molecules carrying DNA codes that […]. Harmston, N., Glaser, T.L. Genome Med 12, 89 (2020). Genome Med 12, 89 (2020).

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The Pharma Data

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

State-of-the-art facility will headquarter research efforts in Boston and New York to accelerate the development of RNA and DNA-based medicines. This space will provide dedicated and configurable lab and office space, access to Lilly scientists, and opportunities for collaboration.

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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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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 17, 2024

DDW’s Diana Spencer speaks to Josh Mandel-Brehm , CEO of Massachusetts-based biotech CAMP4, to understand the role regulatory RNAs play in gene expression and how the founders overcame the challenge of launching a business based on brand new science. DS: You describe your therapeutics as RNA Amplifiers. How do they work?

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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. For example, the commonly prescribed pain relief drug codeine is not effective in around 8% of the UK population.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 17, 2023

Oregon State University College of Pharmacy scientists have shown that lipid nanoparticles and messenger RNA could treat blindness associated with a rare genetic condition. . It also doesn’t do fantastically well in continuing to express the enzymes the editing tool uses as molecular scissors to make cuts in the DNA to be edited.

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The Pharma Data

MAY 9, 2022

But now Northwestern Medicine scientists, in an international collaboration with scientists at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Hong Kong, have identified a drug that inhibits growth of the most aggressive meningiomas and how to most accurately identify which meningiomas will respond to the drug.

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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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The Pharma Data

MARCH 7, 2022

The new technique controls gene activity without altering the DNA sequence of the genome by targeting chemical modifications that help package genes in our chromosomes and regulate their activity. Cas9 binds and uses RNA as an address-tag. The AI-designed blocking protein was the cargo of the dCas9-RNA construct.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

From a general healthcare perspective, access to this sort of data is invaluable, but this is particularly noteworthy in that DNA tests have historically been limited in these regions on account of cost and availability of practitioners, services and resources.

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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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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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pharmaphorum

APRIL 14, 2022

Established on the success of our RNA Therapeutics series, we look forward to welcoming you at Oligonucleotide Therapeutics and Delivery to join the conversation around maximizing the potential of oligo-based treatments. Jimmy Weterings, Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca. EARLY-BIRD RATES: ?BOOK BOOK BY 29TH APRIL AND SAVE £400. ?BOOK

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Pharma Mirror

APRIL 21, 2024

Scientists have been striving to optimize mRNA stability, immunogenicity, translation efficiency, and delivery systems to achieve efficient and safe mRNA delivery. Messenger RNA (mRNA) is a single-stranded ribonucleic acid transcribed from the DNA chain, carrying the encoding information for protein synthesis.

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Delveinsight

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The gene-editing technologies, which have reached the clinic, CRISPR, zinc finger nucleases, and TALENs, make their edits by nicking DNA at the target site. The GuideTx technology screens for lipid nanoparticles inside the body that can be used to deliver RNA to cells throughout the body.

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XTalks

MARCH 8, 2022

From leading COVID-19 vaccine developments to being at the helm of the latest gene therapies and inventing ground-breaking DNA technologies like CRISPR, women have been at the forefront of some of the most leading-edge scientific discoveries in recent years, both as innovators and leaders.

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Roots Analysis

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Over the years, researchers and scientists have been on the lookout to find effective ways to treat various types of oncological disorders. The classical potent drugs killed tumor cells by inhibiting crucial cellular processes and by interfering with DNA. It is interesting to note that payloads are continuously evolving.

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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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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. mRNA is a molecule made up of a single strand of ribonucleic acid (RNA). The benefits of mRNA mRNA-based therapies have multiple benefits over existing DNA and protein platforms.

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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. They are very good doctors, scientists and entrepreneurs. He told pharmaphorum: “They are very good doctors, scientists and entrepreneurs.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Mount Sinai researchers have developed a new model that uses DNA and RNA sequencing data from hundreds of patients to identify specific genes and genetic alterations responsible for never-before-defined subtypes of a blood cancer called multiple myeloma.

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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

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. Some cells die while others thrive.

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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. The female scientist duo became the first women to be jointly awarded a Nobel Prize, making it a winning moment for women in science.

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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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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

AUGUST 1, 2022

As a result, scientists have been unable to determine whether the cells possess distinctive attributes that HIV-cure-directed therapies may exploit. Using data produced by FIND-Seq, the scientists compared the gene expression patterns of HIV-infected memory CD4+ T cells to those of HIV-uninfected memory CD4+ T cells in the same individuals.

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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

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the first article, Reece Armstrong speaks to Natalia Mateu, Co-Founder, Jelena Aleksic, Co-Founder and Peter Curran, Chemoinformatics Scientist, about utilising 3D chemistry and AI to get small molecule therapies from the clinic to the bedside.

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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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