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NIH renews knockout mouse project for 3rd time

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Knockout’ mice are bred in a laboratory with specific genes silenced or ‘knocked out’. The goal of this final phase is to produce and phenotype hundreds of knockout mouse models for genes with little to no known function, to better understand the genetic bases for diseases in humans and animals. . “As

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The trends driving ELRIG Drug Discovery 2022

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Automated systems have become a prominent feature throughout drug discovery, helping scientists save time and assisting in reproducible experiments for more verifiable results. Knockout’ mice are bred in a laboratory with specific genes silenced or ‘knocked out’. Automation.

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Epigenetic Editing with CRISPR Might Be Easier Than We Thought

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The tool could also prove to be safer than conventional CRISPR-based gene therapies as it does not involve DNA editing, and thus would not cause potentially harmful off-target genomic changes. Genes can be switched on with a complementary tool called CRISPRon that has also been described in the paper.

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Using CRISPR to Edit the Epigenome Might Be Easier Than We Thought

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The tool could also prove to be safer than conventional CRISPR-based gene therapies as it does not involve DNA editing, and thus would not cause potentially harmful off-target genomic changes. Genes can be switched on with a complementary tool called CRISPRon that has also been described in the paper.

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World RNA Day: What impact RNA it had on drug discovery?  

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Dr Pirkko Muhonen, Senior Field Application Scientist, Nucleic Acid Therapeutics, at Thermo Fisher Scientific, shared what’s next for RNA-based medicine post-pandemic with DDW.

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The use of base editing in stem-cell based therapies

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This precision editing approach allows for a host of potential therapeutic applications, including gene silencing, either via splice site disruption or the addition of premature stop codons, as well as gene correction in single nucleotide variant diseases. References 1:Thomson J, Itskovitz-Eldor J, Shapiro S, et al.