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FDA Advisory Committee Recommends Use of Investigational Drug Maribavir (TAK-620) to Treat Post-Transplant Recipients with Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infection and Disease Refractory to Treatment With or Without Resistance

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee (AMDAC) voted unanimously to recommend use of maribavir (TAK-620) for the treatment of refractory cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and disease with genotypic resistance to ganciclovir, valganciclovir, foscarnet or cidofovir in transplant recipients.

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Roche provides molecular testing solutions to identify and differentiate SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants of concern

The Pharma Data

TIB Molbiol offers a broad range of VirSNiP variant test kits for the detection of key spike protein mutations. The company launched eight RUO VirSNiP test kits for use on LightCycler® and cobas z 480 analyzers, for the detection of key spike protein mutations present in the novel B.1.1.529 1.1.529 Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant.

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Innovative Companies Diving into The Neuro Market Ahead of 2021

The Pharma Data

Vigil’s pipeline strategy is to target these diseases by combining a high-level understanding of microglia physiology, disease genotyping, and patient phenotyping to identify specific genetic variations associated with microglial dysfunction. Li is a prominent neuroscientist and former professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

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RNA editing oligonucleotide selected for AATD treatment 

Drug Discovery World

Context and treatment potential AATD is an inherited, autosomal recessive genetic disorder that is most frequently caused by a single nucleotide variant (SNV) mutation in the SERPINA1 gene, the most common of which is the ‘PiZ’ mutation.

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Navigating Neuroscience Trials: Biomarkers, Imaging and CRO Strategies

XTalks

Efficacy: By comparing with baseline data, clinicians can discern changes in key imaging biomarkers, from the size of brain structures like grey matter, white matter and CSF, to the size of an infarct or the presence of specific proteins like tau or amyloid.

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Nutrigenomics: The Future of Personalized Nutrition

Roots Analysis

Recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies have led to significant developments in healthcare-focused research on precision medicine and diagnostics. In this context, nutrigenomics studies have demonstrated that individuals who have genetic risk alleles for obesity can hasten the weight loss with the help of some dietary modifications.

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FDA Approves Oxlumo (lumasiran) for the Treatment of Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1

The Pharma Data

PH1 is an ultra-rare genetic disease characterized by oxalate overproduction. Oxlumo marks our third FDA approval in less than three years, positioning us to meet or exceed our Alnylam 2020 strategy and goals, and further highlighting the productivity of our RNAi platform and the speed at which we can bring innovative medicines to patients.