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Gene expression delivery tool ‘slides’ instructions into cells

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Researchers say they have successfully used a cell’s natural process for making proteins to ‘slide’ genetic instructions into a cell and produce critical proteins missing from those cells. . Splicing-linked expression design. Credit: Alexei Bygrave, Johns Hopkins Medicine. Dubbed ‘splicing-linked expression design’ (SLED). .

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Gene Accessibility May Explain Why Alzheimer’s Gene, APOE4, is Less Dangerous for People of African Descent

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Hussman Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have found that variations in chromatin accessibility, and thus gene expression, may explain why people of European descent with APOE4 gene variants have a greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease than people of African descent with similar genetics.

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Nucleome raises £37.5m to shine light on ‘dark genome’

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million ($40 million) first-round financing that will be used to explore so-called ‘dark’ regions of the human genome. M Ventures’ Dr Bauke Anninga said that that the startup has a “differentiated platform technology has the potential to fundamentally shift the way we discover and develop precision medicines.

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Moving the needle of CAR-T beyond oncology 

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CAR-T Therapies have revolutionised the field of personalised medicine, especially in oncology. MT: What is genetic tuning? BS: Genetic tuning, also called epigenetic editing, actively manipulates the epigenetic machinery to influence gene transcription. MT: How will genetic tuning improve CAR T therapies?

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This week in drug discovery (2-6 October)  

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In celebration of the Nobel Prize for Medicine going to two of the early proponents of mRNA technology for creating therapeutics, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, this week our round-up highlights the importance of genetics, genomics and gene editing in drug discovery.

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The epigenetic edge: Harnessing precision medicine’s potential 

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Founder Dr Moshe Szyf Founder shares the potential of harnessing precision medicine. 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.

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Genetic biomarkers could personalise therapy for TNBC

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A new study has shed light on the genetic messages encoded by genes within ‘triple negative’ breast cancers (TNBC), and shows they could predict response to chemotherapy. Although immune features remained relatively stable, RNA-based features related to DNA damage repair pathways changed significantly.