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Genes Help Explain Role of Race in Prostate Cancer Risk

The Pharma Data

Now, research is helping to bring genetic risks for people of various racial and ethnic groups into focus. Researchers from the USC Center for Genetic Epidemiology in Los Angeles and the Institute of Cancer Research in London led the study. THURSDAY, Jan. Men of Asian ancestry inherit about three-quarters the risk of white men.

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Beam makes USD 120M bet; GRAIL and Quest announce the collaboration; Brain organoids mimic infant’s brains; Improvement in T cells to kill cancer

Delveinsight

Beam Therapeutics has taken over a startup whose technology could proffer the biotech’s genetic medicines to more tissues in the body, widening the potential to approach more diseases. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Beam aims to make more precise edits with genetic medicines, which employ base-editing.

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Solving the Global Clinical Trial Gap: The Case for Partnering with Multisite Lab Services

XTalks

Over the past several years, personalized medicine has led the charge in medical innovation, leading drug development efforts as well as furthering the research community’s understanding of human disease states.

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Unlocking the potential of mRNA for the future treatment of rare diseases 

Drug Discovery World

As we turn our focus to new potential applications and disease areas for the platform, scientists and companies must consider the potential life-saving impact on rare, inherited diseases, says Archana Gupta , PhD, staff scientist in genetic sciences at Thermo Fisher Scientific.

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AI test could predict best cancer therapies for patients

pharmaphorum

The team has focused initially on non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the most common form of lung cancer, but say the same principles could be applied to other tumour types, and combined with other testing approaches like genomics to inform treatment decisions.

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What to expect from SLAS Europe 2023

Drug Discovery World

Managing all of these elements using iterative design and prototyping can play a key role in successful project delivery, and marrying technologies with biochemical or cellular assays has the potential to bring disruptive change across fields as diverse as personalised medicine, diagnostics and drug screening.

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