Scienmag

JULY 11, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Using new technologies to study thousands of genes simultaneously within immune cells, researchers at Gladstone Institutes, UC San Francisco (UCSF), and Stanford School of Medicine have created the most detailed map yet of how complex networks of genes function together.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Forward genetics pinpoints gene linked to ASD involving severe speech impairment and opens door to search for more mutations, future treatments Credit: Photo taken by Brian Coats for UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Dec.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

CHAPEL HILL, NC – Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and colleagues have demonstrated that rare variants in the ANK2 gene, consistently found in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), can alter architecture and organization of neurons, potentially contributing to autism and neurodevelopmental (..)

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Credit: Professor Jane Farrar and Dr Daniel Maloney, Trinity College Dublin Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have developed a new gene therapy approach that offers promise for one day treating an eye disease that leads to a progressive loss of vision and affects thousands of people across the globe.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 14, 2023

All that DNA is organised into hereditary units called genes, with humans having about 25,000 genes collectively known as the genome. If you were to uncoil all the DNA in your body into a single continuous strand it would be 54 trillion metres in length, enough to stretch from the Earth to the Sun and back 180 times.

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Scienmag

JUNE 24, 2021

NIH scientists discover that bacteria may drive activity of many hallmark aging genes in flies Credit: Courtesy of the Giniger lab NIH/NINDS.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified a gene that plays a role in cellular responses to molecular stressors, such as DNA damage and nutrient scarcity, according to findings published in Nature Communications.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified disease-causing DNA variants in two genes linked to neurodevelopmental deficits including microcephaly in children, according to findings published in Nature Communications.

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 13, 2021

LA JOLLA—(October 13, 2021) For the past fifteen years, cancer researchers have been using DNA sequencing technology to identify the gene mutations that cause the different forms of cancer.

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Scienmag

MARCH 21, 2022

Wilmington, DE, (MARCH 21, 2022) – A new study from scientists at ChristianaCare’s Gene Editing Institute is advancing the safety and efficacy of using CRISPR gene editing in patient treatments by demonstrating how to identify and evaluate the broad-based biological impact of gene editing on targeted tissues, where the edits are designed to fully disable (..)

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Scienmag

APRIL 16, 2021

– April 16, 2021 – Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have identified a set of human genes that fight SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19. Credit: Dotted Yeti LA JOLLA, CALIF.

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Scienmag

APRIL 8, 2021

Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – April 8, 2021 – New research has uncovered a surprising role for so-called “jumping” genes that are a source of genetic mutations responsible for a number of human diseases.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

Scientists rely on gene synthesis technologies as a research tool for everything from basic research to vaccine development and drug target identification. Ever since the inception of gene synthesis, there have been concerns about possible misuse of synthetic genes. Read the rest…

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BioTech 365

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: Scientists produce new antibiotics by gene editing.Scientists have discovered a new route to produce complex antibiotics exploiting gene editing to re-program pathways to future medicines urgently required … Continue reading (..)

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Scienmag

MARCH 5, 2021

Researchers develop tunable system that harnesses the spread of cargo carried by gene drives Credit: Gerard Terradas, UC San Diego Powerful new genetic engineering methods have given scientists the potential to revolutionize several sectors of global urgency.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In a study of mice, scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai showed how the activity of one gene, turned on in a newly discovered group of bone-bordering cells, may play an important […]. A skull is not one single bone but rather a collection of bone plates joined together early in development.

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Scienmag

AUGUST 11, 2020

An international team of scientists, including a researcher from Sechenov University, reviewed scientific articles on proteins (and genes encoding them) that help cancer cells enter the brain.

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 12, 2023

It is the UK’s first specifically designed accessible laboratory for the cell and gene therapy industry. This investment in Scotland builds upon CGT Catapult’s existing work supporting emerging advanced therapy clusters in the UK, with its Manufacturing Innovation Centres in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and Braintree, Essex.

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Scienmag

MAY 6, 2021

Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have developed a highly efficient method to address a major challenge in biology–identifying the genetic ‘switches’ that regulate gene expression. Credit: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital St.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For the first time, scientists have used CRISPR technology to insert genes that allow immune cells to focus their attack on cancer cells, potentially leaving normal cells unharmed and increasing the effectiveness of immunotherapy. of UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and professor of medicine at UCLA.

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Scienmag

MARCH 31, 2021

Independent of cholesterol, gene variants raise risk of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure Credit: In-Hyuk Jung, PhD, Stitziel Lab High cholesterol is the most commonly understood cause of atherosclerosis, a hardening of the arteries that raises the risk of heart attack and stroke.

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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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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 9, 2023

The findings are published in Science Translational Medicine. . Using gene engineering, we are repurposing cancer cells to develop a therapeutic that kills tumour cells and stimulates the immune system to both destroy primary tumors and prevent cancer.” . CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing .

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Scienmag

MAY 2, 2022

WINSTON-SALEM, NC – May 2, 2022 — Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) scientists working on CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing technology have developed a method to increase efficiency of editing while minimizing DNA deletion sizes, a key step toward developing gene editing therapies to treat genetic diseases.

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Scienmag

APRIL 27, 2022

CHAPEL HILL, NC – Inside embryonic cells, specific proteins control the rate at which genetic information is transcribed from DNA to messenger RNA – a crucial regulatory step before proteins are created. Then, organs develop and hopefully function properly.

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Scienmag

MARCH 11, 2021

The CRISPR-based gene editor, C-to-G Base Editor (CGBE), opens up treatment avenues for up to 40 per cent of genetic disorders caused by single-nucleotide mutations Credit: Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) A team of researchers from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) (..)

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 12, 2023

The genome is the blueprint for life, consisting of genes made up of thousands of pairs of DNA bases. Altering one base pair can drastically change how the gene’s protein product functions, while mutations can lead to the development of a range of genetic disorders. . Limitations of organoids.

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Scienmag

JUNE 9, 2021

Credit: RCSI Scientists have developed polypeptide-based materials that act as effective vectors for delivering gene therapies. The first-of-its-kind platform enables the vectors to be adapted to suit the specific gene therapy cargo.

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Scienmag

JUNE 1, 2022

BAR HARBOR, MAINE – With its amazing capacity to regenerate tissues and organs, its ability to reproduce in a laboratory environment and the ease with which its genes can be manipulated, the Mexican salamander, or axolotl, holds enormous promise as a model for the study of regenerative medicine.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 21, 2023

Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said: “Since our inception, we have always strived to be at the forefront of cutting-edge technology, leveraging innovations to deliver the greatest possible impact to people through mRNA medicines. “We Cell & Gene Therapy coverage on Pharmaceutical Technology is supported by Cytiva.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Scientists have discovered that gene therapy and the diabetes drug metformin may be potential treatments for late-onset retinal degeneration (L-ORD), a rare, blinding eye disease. Researchers from the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health generated a “disease-in-a-dish” model to study the disease.

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Scienmag

MARCH 19, 2021

Credit: Thomas Gorochowski In a recent study led by the University of Bristol, scientists have shown how to simultaneously harness multiple forms of regulation in living cells to strictly control gene expression and open new avenues for improved biotechnologies.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 17, 2024

The event will feature experts Daniel Jachimowicz, Senior Bioscience Scientist at AstraZeneca BioPharmaceuticals R&D, Sweden, and Bastian Schiffthaler, Senior Data Scientist at AstraZeneca BioPharmaceuticals R&D, Sweden.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Here he gives us a deeper look at how genomic medicine is evolving and the barriers that are preventing it from reaching its full potential. At that time, we thought this would be the holy grail for medicine. Now, however, the field is changing with respect to genomic medicine.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If further studies verify the results, this could be a new method for targeting specific cell types for a variety of disorders that could be treated with gene therapies. Two methods currently used to deliver protein-making packages into cells, ‘mini promoters’ and serotype-mediated gene expression, vary widely.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 14, 2023

Strokes cause numerous changes in gene activity in affected small blood vessels in the brain, and these changes are potentially targetable with existing or future drugs to mitigate brain injury or improve stroke recovery, according to a study led by Weill Cornell Medicine scientists.

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