Pharmaceutical Technology

AUGUST 11, 2022

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and collaborators have identified rare mutations in the INHBE gene that is expressed in the liver, related to a lower waist-to-hip ratio for body mass index (BMI), which is often used as an indicator of abdominal fat and is correlated with the risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and coronary heart disease.

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The Pharma Data

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

UNC researchers now show that these two factors can directly associate with one another, modulating cancer-cell-specific programs of gene expression. ” They found that EZH2 possesses two different binding patterns on chromatin in acute leukemia cells, eliciting two distinct gene-regulatory programs (Figure 1). .”

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Embarking on a new era of medicine The advent of genomics has ushered in the era of personalised medicine, enabling us to analyse the genetic makeup of individuals with unprecedented accuracy. Genetic variations inherited from our parents shape our response to drugs, disease susceptibility, physiology and metabolism.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 29, 2021

Genome editing is an exciting but still nascent field, and companies in the area face as many obstacles as they do opportunities. Maybe in 50 years’ time we’ll be using gene editing to lower cholesterol, but it won’t replace statins in anyone but those with life threatening mutations for a long time”. billion in funding.

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 16, 2023

Triple negative cancers are not driven by any of the three molecules that can be blocked by targeted hormone receptor drugs – the HER2 protein and two hormone receptors for oestrogen and progesterone – and so current treatment options are limited.

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 10, 2021

Known as Zynteglo in Europe where it is approved to treat the rare blood disorder beta-thalassemia, the gene therapy has been given the all-clear by bluebird’s scientists after reviewing the case of AML that emerged in a trial of the drug in sickle cell disease. bluebird bio’s Philip Gregory.

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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. mRNA is a molecule made up of a single strand of ribonucleic acid (RNA).

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Anita Ramanathan outlines four synthetic biology approaches that are improving and accelerating drug discovery. . It has made its way into almost every aspect of drug discovery, whether it’s exploring basic biology, modelling diseases, identifying and validating targets, or performing drug screens. .

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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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Delveinsight

JULY 30, 2020

The drug, UCB0107, is designed to impede or decrease the buildup of tau proteins in the brain, which leads to nerve cell damage and death. ‘Genome-tuning’ biotech Omega Therapeutics snags USD 85 Million. ExeVir bags USD 27 million to take llama-derived COVID-19 drug into the clinic. GlaxoSmithKline, the U.S.

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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. Cas12 protein creates staggered double-strand breaks (DSBs) and promotes the HDR mechanism instead of utilizing both non-homologous ends joining (NHEJ) and HDR.

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Inducing double strand breaks at unintended locations in the genome can lead to off-target genetic modifications that are difficult to predict and potentially deleterious. Complicating matters even more, researchers currently lack effective and reliable methods for detecting and measuring off-target genomic events.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 21, 2023

Atrandi Biosciences’ novel technology platform enables researchers to gain insights into the biology of single cells, offering immediate applications in single-cell sequencing, drug and antibody discovery, functional metagenomics, microbial analysis, directed evolution, and synthetic biology. It will be led by Björn C.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A key breakthrough area where big data analytics has shown tremendous scope and application is in systems biology, which has bolstered holistic drug research and development, ultimately to provide patients with access to the right therapies. This could be expanded to assessing predictors at baseline.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 23, 2023

Kevin Hemphill, R&D Manager at PerkinElmer’s Horizon Discovery explores how base editing has emerged as an attractive gene editing option for researchers wanting to develop stem cell-based therapies. Adult fibroblasts were cultured in a cocktail of transcription factors to reactivate embryonic gene expression patterns 2.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 24, 2020

From isolating SARS-CoV-2 in early January to sequencing its genome shortly thereafter and having a prototype vaccine against it within days, scientific process and progress have held steadfast throughout the pandemic. Drugs, Testing and Vaccines. This makes the latter potentially easier to target with drugs and vaccines.

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