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Genes Help Explain Role of Race in Prostate Cancer Risk

The Pharma Data

. “The potential utility of this is that it can be used to define men who are at elevated risk of developing prostate cancer,” said lead author Christopher Haiman, professor of preventive medicine at Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles.

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

Drug Discovery World

Genetic analysis tools such as Sanger sequencing by Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) and qPCR are an integral part of the vector construction process to confirm and validate that the correct sequence of the gene is inserted into the vector backbone. She is passionate about advancing research in the pursuit of healthier lives for all.

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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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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.