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Investment fuels AI-driven development of breakthrough genomic medicines

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David Del Bourgo (CEO and co-founder, Whitelab Genomics) has always been passionate about introducing disruptive, innovative technologies to markets. We founded Whitelab Genomics after realising the potential to use data, data science, and AI in a more systematic way to develop genomic therapies,” Del Bourgo says.

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Rome Therapeutics raises $77m for junk DNA-targeting drugs

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The Cambridge, Massachusetts biotech is focusing specifically on the 60% of DNA sequences that repeat themselves hundreds or thousands of times in the genome, known as the ‘repeatome’, that could contain targets for cancer and autoimmune disorders. That muffles the immune system response and allows the cancer to grow.

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World AIDS Day 2023: New and Promising Treatments for HIV/AIDS

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Over 26 weeks of Sunlenca combined with other antiretroviral drugs, 81 percent of participants achieved HIV RNA suppression, reaching levels low enough to be considered undetectable. Both trials concluded with maintained virologic suppression, and no clinically significant change from baseline in CD4+ cell counts was observed.

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How transcriptomics is driving drug discovery

Drug Discovery World

SB: Transcriptomics is the study of genomic RNA transcripts in a biological system. RNA transcript expression levels can provide insight into underlying biology – eg. In terms of technical process, traditional RNA sequencing was a very laborious process that could take several weeks and was prone to errors. SB: Certainly.

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?5 Things You Need to Know from Our Recent Gene Therapy Webinar

Worldwide Clinical Trials

The pandemic has had a lasting impact on the ability of sites to participate in trials, particularly in the US. We need to consider how to use diverse populations in gene therapy trials. But it’s important we strive to find ways to include diverse patients so trial data can be representative of the wider population.

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Reconfiguring COVID and influenza vaccines for long-term effectiveness

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Le Vert says Osivax’s technology differs, however, as it attacks the virus’ T-cells, making the vaccine more effective in the long term, and that clinical trials have shown promise. The beauty of that T-cell response is that you can actually access the internal parts of the virus,” Le Vert states.

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ImmunityBio’s hAd5 T-Cell COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Shows Complete Protection of Airways in Non-Human Primates

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The vaccine targeted both the inner nucleocapsid (N) and the outer spike (S) proteins of the virus to maximize the immune response. The study showed this broad immune response led to the complete clearance of the virus in a matter of days after infection of previously-vaccinated primates.