Drug Discovery World

APRIL 17, 2024

Pooled CRISPR screens offer the ability to knock out or perturb many genes in a single experiment from several hundred to tens of thousands of targets in parallel. Genome-wide screens are becoming the standard for drug discovery to power unbiased identification of drug targets across gene regulatory networks.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 3, 2024

Pooled CRISPR screens offer the ability to knock out or perturb many genes in a single experiment from several hundred to tens of thousands of targets in parallel. Genome-wide screens are becoming the standard for drug discovery to power unbiased identification of drug targets across gene regulatory networks.

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BioTech 365

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Paradise Genomics announced that it has advanced the development of their whole blood-based assay for gastric cancer by translating a gene expression profile associated with the disease into a high-throughput and cost-effective real-time PCR (RT-PCR) test. NORTHBROOK, Ill.–(BUSINESS

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Drug Discovery Today

APRIL 24, 2023

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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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 6, 2023

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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Scienmag

MARCH 3, 2021

Using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, researchers at the University of Cologne have developed an ‘aging clock’ that reads the biological age of an organism directly from its gene expression, the transcriptome.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

BS: Genetic tuning, also called epigenetic editing, actively manipulates the epigenetic machinery to influence gene transcription. Orchestrating the naturally occurring conductors of gene expression can shift the functional state of cells and alter gene expression.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 29, 2022

Ultragenyx uses adeno-associated virus 8 (AAV8) gene therapy to induce stable OTC gene expression. This treatment activates the OTC gene so that ammonia can be removed from the blood. According to Bumcrot, regRNAs are “RNAs that arise out of the non-coding genome”.

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 21, 2023

Transcription factors are proteins that control every gene in a person’s genome by binding to DNA and flipping the on/off switches that govern gene expression. Talus Bio was also awarded a $2.0M

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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. JMB: Rick Young’s publication shows that RNA binding TFs fine-tunes gene expression.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 2, 2023

A new paper has solved the 20-year mystery of how epigenetic modifications act as traffic lights to control gene expression and could ultimately speed up the development of a new class of epigenetic cancer drugs. Epigenetics is still largely unexplored and referred to as the ‘dark matter’ of the genome.

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Scienmag

JANUARY 11, 2021

These biomarkers are epigenetic, meaning they involve changes to molecular factors that regulate genome activity such as gene expression independent of DNA sequence, and can be passed down to future generations. In a […].

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BioTech 365

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Presentations to highlight two of Castle’s skin cancer gene expression profile tests FRIENDSWOOD, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–$CSTL #ASDP–Castle Biosciences, Inc.

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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. Then over the next two or three years, gene therapy was accepted as something that companies got involved in, and several biotechs have been bought up by big pharma.”. The genomic medicine journey.

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XTalks

AUGUST 5, 2020

The detailed complexity of these processes can be captured by creating models that combine correlates of gene and protein expression, providing insight into the molecular composition of tissues. Visium Spatial Gene Expression Solution. Feature barcoding using gel beads. Leading Innovations in Single Cell Technology.

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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. HKG Epitherapeutics is a biotechnology company developing novel tools for the early detection of cancer and promoting healthy aging.

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 7, 2022

The approach will allow researchers to understand the role individual genes play in normal cell growth and development, in aging, and in such diseases as cancer, said Shiri Levy, a postdoctoral fellow in UW Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM) and the lead author of the paper.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 3, 2023

As well as providing extensive coverage of the SLAS2023 meeting in San Diego and Rare Disease Day , DDW has also reported on a number of developments in cancer drug discovery this week.

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Other research updates include a study by NIH 5 researchers using post-mortem brain tissues to understand genomic differences in individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The study advances our understanding of ADHD by showing how the condition is tied to changes in how certain genes are expressed in the brain.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 10, 2023

Its convergence with genomics makes sense and we have now multiple examples of AI being used to inform prescribing, diagnostics and drug discovery/ development. The team utilised genomic data from a database consisting of over 11,000 patients and which represented 33 types of human cancers.

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XTalks

MAY 12, 2021

In this episode, Ayesha discusses a new tool that uses CRISPR to modulate gene expression without editing DNA sequences. Dubbed “CRISPRoff,” the technology targets the epigenome to silence genes involved in diseases, with applications in cancer, AML and other conditions with a heritable component.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

SB: Transcriptomics is the study of genomic RNA transcripts in a biological system. RNA transcript expression levels can provide insight into underlying biology – eg. which genes are upregulated, and which ones are downregulated – which is very useful when studying different disease states.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It can be caused by different types of mutation, including within the BRCA gene and other forms of altered gene expression. HRD impairs cells’ ability to repair structural DNA breaks, leading to additional changes in the DNA of the tumour (known as genomic instability), and how that tumour will respond to certain treatments.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Scientists have discovered the link between gene expression, DNA methylation, and brain structural changes in depression, revealing new potential therapeutic targets.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 15, 2022

The first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome was published 1 April 2022 in a special issue of the journal Science 1. While The Human Genome Project mapped about 92% of the human genome two decades ago, sequencing the last 8% of the genome proved highly challenging.

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 10, 2021

Philip Gregory, chief scientific officer at bluebird, said the latest analysis showed that the integration site of the vector was in a gene called VAMP4. VAMP4 has no known association with development of AML or with processes such as cellular proliferation or genome stability that could be linked with cancer.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The researchers performed flow-cytometry EMT characterisation of CTCs as compared to EMT gene expression in tumour tissue and investigated expression correlation with respect to clinical outcomes. The expression of EpCAM and N-cadherin were utilised to characterise CTC status as epithelial or EMT.

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 16, 2023

The authors therefore recommend against doctors routinely using biopsies taken from primary tumour samples to carry out gene-expression (RNA)-based biomarker tests for guiding the treatment for secondary cancers.

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Roots Analysis

AUGUST 31, 2023

Nutrigenomics is the science studying the relationship between human genome, nutrition and health. In part, the success of the Human Genome Project has also paved a path for the novel concept of nutrigenomics. Nutrigenomics tests are capable of determining the influence of genes on nutrient requirements and metabolism.

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The Pharma Data

JULY 11, 2021

Since then, there has been an increasing body of findings that the microbiome, which is sometimes also referred to as the second human genome, is not only of central importance for digestion, but also influences, if not controls, at least a large number of body functions. The immune system is mentioned particularly frequently.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 27, 2024

Pooled CRISPR screens offer the ability to knock out or perturb many genes in a single experiment from several hundred to tens of thousands of targets in parallel. Genome-wide screens are becoming the standard for drug discovery to power unbiased identification of drug targets across gene regulatory networks.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

They are called: Sitting down with… PharmEnable , Is single-cell gene expression the next trend in next generation sequencing? In the second article, we hear from Dr Dina Finan, PhD, Product Manager at 10x Genomics and Dr Nick Downey, PhD, NGS Collaborations Lead at Integrated DNA Technologies.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

They are called: Sitting down with… PharmEnable , Is single-cell gene expression the next trend in next generation sequencing? In the second article, we hear from Dr Dina Finan, PhD, Product Manager at 10x Genomics and Dr Nick Downey, PhD, NGS Collaborations Lead at Integrated DNA Technologies.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 11, 2024

Pooled CRISPR screens offer the ability to knock out or perturb many genes in a single experiment from several hundred to tens of thousands of targets in parallel. Genome-wide screens are becoming the standard for drug discovery to power unbiased identification of drug targets across gene regulatory networks.

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 1, 2023

opti-ox uses a dual genomic safe harbour approach to cell programming, and the granted US patent covers the use of opti-ox to deterministically activate genetic code in any eukaryotic (cell with a nucleus) cell type. bit.bio has secured a foundational US patent for opti-ox, its precision cell programming and manufacturing technology.

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