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The trends driving ELRIG Drug Discovery 2022

Drug Discovery World

This year’s event will cover some of the most exciting advancements in areas spanning screening, automation, high content imaging, disease models, cell and gene therapies and how innovation is being driven through partnerships and collaborations. Cell and gene therapies. In 2021, levels of investment hit an all-time high at $22.7

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RNA Therapeutics: A Novel Approach to Treating Diseases

Roots Analysis

Coding RNAs include messenger RNA (mRNA) and short interfering RNA (siRNA), which encode proteins and silence gene expression, respectively. ASOs are short single-stranded nucleotides that bind to specific messenger RNAs and prevent the production of a particular protein.

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The use of base editing in stem-cell based therapies

Drug Discovery World

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.