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Scientists use genomics to counter antimicrobial resistant typhoid

Drug Discovery World

Genome sequencing has been used to study typhoid fever in a study in Zimbabwe and understand how the disease has evolved to be resistant to treatment. In response, an emergency reactive vaccination campaign using Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) was initiated in suburbs of Harare in 2019, providing moderate protection.

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STAT+: Moderna expands CRISPR gene editing research with ElevateBio partnership

STAT News

Moderna is aiming to build a gene editing franchise powered by some of the same technologies used in its COVID-19 vaccines. Life Edit is the North Carolina subsidiary of ElevateBio, a cell and gene therapy manufacturing firm in Waltham. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Investment fuels AI-driven development of breakthrough genomic medicines

pharmaphorum

David Del Bourgo (CEO and co-founder, Whitelab Genomics) has always been passionate about introducing disruptive, innovative technologies to markets. We founded Whitelab Genomics after realising the potential to use data, data science, and AI in a more systematic way to develop genomic therapies,” Del Bourgo says.

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Micro-robots, smart toilets, and 3D bioprinted organs: the future of healthcare

Pharmaceutical Technology

You have just received the results from your whole genome sequencing test, offered through your public health provider, and discovered that you have a 75% chance of developing a rare form of cancer. It could be that you are lucky, and there is already a cancer vaccine on the market that you will get priority for. It is the year 2030.

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Junk DNA: How the dark genome is changing RNA therapies

Drug Discovery World

The whole world realised the power of RNA when the Covid-19 pandemic brought us the first mRNA-based vaccines. Decoding ‘junk DNA’ The Human Genome Project and subsequent studies discovered that most of our DNA (approximately 98%) does not actually code for proteins, with humans having approximately 20,000 tox 25,000 protein-coding genes.

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BioSpace's Inaugural Best Places to Work Report Reveals Industry's Top Choice Employers

BioSpace

This year’s top 30 large and small companies operate in some of the Life Sciences’ hottest spaces – precision medicine, vaccines, gene editing, genomics and oncology.

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This week in drug discovery (2-6 October)  

Drug Discovery World

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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