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COSMIC database matches drugs to cancer mutations

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The COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer) database, operated by the Wellcome Sanger Institute, grew out of the work of the Cancer Genome Project and has been gathering data on mutations associated with specific cancers for almost 17 years.

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The era of precision neuroscience

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The development of effective new disease-modifying treatments in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders has been hindered by their inherent genetic complexity, environmental influences, and clinical variability. This is comparatively easier to accomplish in these diseases because they are relatively monogenic.

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Where is the drug discovery expertise happening in the UK?

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From the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow, to Edinburgh Drug Discovery in the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Genetics and Cancer (IGC). Emerging UK biotech firms like Mosaic Therapeutics, Enhanc3D Genomics, and Nucleome Therapeutics are using these genomic insights to innovate.”

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