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The trends driving ELRIG Drug Discovery 2022

Drug Discovery World

DDW Editor Reece Armstrong explores some of the trends that will be featured in sessions throughout ELRIG Drug Discovery 2022 and the news behind them. There’s no question that cell and gene therapies have emerged as some of the most promising and innovative medicines on the market. . billion, compared to $19.9

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RNA Therapeutics: A Novel Approach to Treating Diseases

Roots Analysis

Coding RNAs include messenger RNA (mRNA) and short interfering RNA (siRNA), which encode proteins and silence gene expression, respectively. ASOs are short single-stranded nucleotides that bind to specific messenger RNAs and prevent the production of a particular protein.

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The use of base editing in stem-cell based therapies

Drug Discovery World

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.