Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Genomic healthcare data is critical to identify disease risk, ancestry, traits and response to medicines and aids in the development of new targeted therapies – precision medicines. In April 2003, after its launch in October 1990, the project was completed, generating the first sequence of the human genome.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 16, 2023

The Abu Dhabi Department of Health (DoH) in the UAE has made a declaration of collaboration with Mass General Brigham’s (MGB) International Center for Genetic Disease (iCGD) to advance life sciences.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 12, 2023

Foundation Medicine has announced it will supply a tissue-based test as a companion diagnostic for Bristol Myers Squibb’s (BMS) recently acquired ROS1/TRK inhibitor repotrectinib. FoundationOne CDx is a sequencing-based in vitro diagnostic device that can identify alterations in 324 genes from tumour samples.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 16, 2024

Recombinant adeno-associated viruses (rAAVs) are considered a promising delivery system for gene therapy medicines. The post rAAV Genome sequencing uncovers transgene integrity and packaging impurities appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW). A live Q&A session follows the webinar presentation.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Challenges remain with current delivery approaches, and genetic medicines applications have been generally restricted to the liver and ex vivo settings. Aera’s technology also includes a licensed therapeutic enzyme platform based on the discovery of novel, compact, and programmable gene editing enzymes.

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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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STAT News

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A Swedish scientist won the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology on Monday for his groundbreaking research into the evolutionary history of humankind. Pääbo unlocked scientists’ understanding of how genes from these extinct relatives have been passed down to present-day humans.

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Scienmag

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Describing a previously unknown genetic condition that affects children, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine say they also found a potential method to prevent the gene mutation by administering a drug during pregnancy.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 19, 2023

Sania Therapeutics, a new company focused on developing genetic medicines for neural circuit dysfunction, has launched at the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) conference. A second platform, Gre-Scan, is designed for the high throughput screening of gene regulatory elements.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Moderna has entered a strategic research and development partnership with ElevateBio’s Life Edit Therapeutics to discover and develop new in-vivo mRNA gene editing therapies. The company’s nuclease collection includes several Protospacer Adjacent Motifs (PAMs), short sequences that help determine the genome’s DNA segments.

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Known as ‘CReATiNG’ (Cloning Reprogramming and Assembling Tiled Natural Genomic DNA), the method offers a simpler and more cost-effective approach to constructing synthetic chromosomes. The thing about most synthetic genomics research is that it involves building chromosomes or genomes from scratch using chemically synthesised DNA pieces.

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STAT News

MARCH 1, 2023

Genome editing summits are generally friendly, nerdy affairs, but for a moment at a Lisbon hotel last June, the conversation at the FASEB genome engineering conference grew tense. ” It was a rare moment: Tessera had raised around $600 million and passed a $1 billion valuation, but published little in academic medical journals.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 24, 2023

Ben Hargreaves finds that the vast amount of genetic data that exists today could help provide a faster, more targeted way of developing new drug candidates. The logical extension to this kind of approach is treating individual patients, with their individual genetic makeup.

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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. Maybe in 50 years’ time we’ll be using gene editing to lower cholesterol, but it won’t replace statins in anyone but those with life threatening mutations for a long time”. Zinc fingers.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 4, 2022

AstraZeneca’s rare disease firm Alexion is set to expand its genomic medicine portfolio with the acquisition of gene editing specialist LogicBio Therapeutics, in a deal worth approximately $68 million. The post AstraZeneca pays record 660% premium for gene editing company LogicBio appeared first on.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 17, 2023

The study, to be published March 17 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, uses a new, highly versatile form of CRISPR-based genome editing with the potential to correct a wide variety of disease-causing genetic mutations.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 19, 2022

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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pharmaphorum

MARCH 24, 2022

There’s a rich history of finding useful medicines from fungi, from the antibiotic penicillin to immune suppressant cyclosporine and cholesterol drug lovastatin. The platform uses an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to zero in on the genes encoding natural products based on their computationally predicted human target.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Credit: Encarnacion/UConn Photo The advent of genome science has given researchers an unprecedented ability to understand the root causes of a host of conditions.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 20, 2023

Researchers have identified two previously unknown genes linked to schizophrenia and newly implicated a third gene as carrying risk for both schizophrenia and autism. The investigators found the two risk genes, SRRM2 and AKAP11, by comparing the gene sequences of people with schizophrenia to those of healthy controls.

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Founder Dr Moshe Szyf Founder shares the potential of harnessing precision medicine. 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.

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Gene editing company Eligo Bioscience has announced a successful $30 million Series B funding round, led by Sanofi Ventures. “We We feel this reflects the strong support for our vision and confirms the potential of Eligo to create a novel class of transformative genetic medicines.”

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A study by the Qatar Genome Research Consortium, led by Dr Lotfi Chouchane from Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, has reported the first landscape of cancer germline mutations – hereditary mutations – in the Qatari population. . These variants increase the risk of developing breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men. .

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 21, 2023

The European Confederation of Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs (EUCOPE), Exact Sciences, Guardant Health, Illumina, MSD and Novartis have come together to launch the European Coalition for Access to Comprehensive Genomic Profiling (ECGP).

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 24, 2023

Listen here: The post New podcast on animal genomics, immunology and CGTs appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW). You can also find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify , Google Play and Apple Podcasts.

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Roots Analysis

JANUARY 22, 2024

However, these approaches are incompetent for dealing with intrinsic carcinogenic genetic abnormalities. This resulted in the discovery of an individualized concept of treatment known as oncology precision medicine which primarily utilizes the patient’s genomic information to provide gene-targeted diagnostics and therapeutics.

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XTalks

JULY 19, 2021

Phosphorus, a leading preventative genomics company, has developed the first comprehensive preventative genetic test for consumers. The test is called GeneCompass and features medical-grade technology to provide a holistic assessment of genetic health and wellness. The Phosphorus GeneCompass test has a list price of $249.

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STAT News

MARCH 9, 2023

LONDON — Scientists at this year’s genome editing summit spent Tuesday showing the world just how far CRISPR -based medicines for treating human diseases have come in a decade. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 23, 2023

Sarepta Therapeutics’ Elevidys has become the first gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) to gain marketing authorisation in the US. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval to Elevidys (delandistrogene moxeparvovec-rokl), an adeno-associated virus (AAV) based gene therapy for the treatment of DMD.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 17, 2024

Join DDW for this exclusive free event, ‘ rAAV genome sequencing with Oxford Nanopore uncovers transgene integrity and packaging impurities ’. Recombinant adeno-associated viruses (rAAVs) are considered a promising delivery system for gene therapy medicines. The event will be supported by Oxford Nanopore Technologies.

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Scienmag

MARCH 1, 2022

PHILADELPHIA – While gene mutations can lead to drug resistance, researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have identified an important, non-genetic adaptation that could also drive resistance to targeted therapy in T cell leukemia, a type of blood cell cancer.

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Scienmag

AUGUST 20, 2020

In people with a single-gene variant that puts them at high risk for heart disease, breast cancer, or colorectal cancer, the rest of the genome can alter that risk Life can change dramatically when someone learns they are genetically predisposed to a disease, such as a condition called familial hypercholesterolemia, where a mutated gene can […]. (..)

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Scienmag

APRIL 15, 2021

Team of Japanese and European scientists identify a novel genetic mitochondrial disorder by analyzing DNA samples from three distinct families Credit: Fujita Health University DNA ligase proteins, which facilitate the formation of bonds between separate strands of DNA, play critical roles in the replication and maintenance of DNA.

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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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XTalks

JULY 14, 2022

Every gene in a cell is expressed at exact levels due to complex gene regulatory networks. The connections between regulatory genes and their downstream targets have been mapped to some extent — they can be thought of as a subway or metro map, with connections existing between major “hubs.”

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Scienmag

MAY 31, 2021

By including multi-ethnic participants, a largescale genetic study has identified more regions of the genome linked to type 2 diabetes-related traits than if the research had been conducted in Europeans alone.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In a new study published in Circulation: Genomics & Precision Medicine, Mayo Clinic researchers designed and developed the first suppression-replacement KCNH2 gene therapy for correcting both long QT syndrome (LQTS) and short QT syndrome (SQTS).

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