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Gene expression delivery tool ‘slides’ instructions into cells

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Splicing-linked expression design. Two methods currently used to deliver protein-making packages into cells, ‘mini promoters’ and serotype-mediated gene expression, vary widely. Credit: Alexei Bygrave, Johns Hopkins Medicine. Dubbed ‘splicing-linked expression design’ (SLED). . in their effectiveness. “We

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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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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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Scientists uncover a new approach for treating aggressive cancer

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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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Right on target: The shift to precision pharmaceuticals

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If there’s one thing I would take from the Summer 2023 issue of Drug Discovery World , it would be that the application of technologies and processes throughout the pharmaceutical industry are changing how scientists pursue the development of therapies. This was done to assess the accuracy of the team’s machine-learning algorithms.

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AI-designed protein awakens silenced genes, one by one

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Researchers from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle describe this finding in the journal Cell Reports. “The beauty of this approach is we can safely upregulate specific genes to affect cell activity without permanently changing the genome and cause unintended mistakes,” Levy said. .

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The Dose: DDW’s drug discovery highlights

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The announcement followed the signing of deals to make new medicines available across the country. . 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. Analysis .

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