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Cell-penetrating peptides as a delivery system for oligonucleotides

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Oligonucleotides act on the RNA level through different molecular pathways, but there is a major drawback when using them as drugs: their poor bioavailability and cellular uptake. This method is generally used to deliver small interfering RNA (siRNA), but it can also be used for larger oligonucleotides too. Oligonucleotide. Anti-miRNA.

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CRISPR breakthroughs: New solutions for common diseases

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Since its discovery in 2012, CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) technology has revolutionised the biomedicine and cell and gene therapy fields, providing a versatile tool for precise and efficient genome editing.

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Synthetic biology tools advancing and accelerating drug discovery efforts

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Even as methods in DNA synthesis continue to advance, scientists’ reliance on third-party companies for synthesising DNA creates a bottleneck, impeding research timelines. . “If If you want to order gene-length sequences, rather than short oligos for PCR, the waiting times are around two or three weeks at least.

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The use of base editing in stem-cell based therapies

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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.