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New whitepaper on trends in precision medicine: Cancer

Drug Discovery World

Precision medicine uses information about an individual’s genes, proteins, and environment to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases, including cancer. Standard treatment for some cancers now include genotyping or molecular imaging in living patients.

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Partners to advance precision medicines for motor neurone disease

Drug Discovery World

The collaboration will accelerate findings by PrecisionLife working with the Motor Neurone Disease Association and leading clinicians at King’s College London and the University of Sheffield to analyse genotyped patient data and find novel genetic insights into the disease.

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US FDA approves Vertex’s Orkambi for cystic fibrosis in children

Pharmaceutical Technology

The treatment is indicated for CF patients who are homozygous for the F508del mutation (F/F genotype) in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. It enrolled 46 children aged one to under two years with the F/F genotype. According to the findings, Orkambi was found to be well tolerated.

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AMP recommends minimum set of pharmacogenetic alleles to guide clinical CYP2D6 genotype testing, pro

Scienmag

Latest joint consensus guideline authored by representatives from AMP, CAP, Royal Dutch Pharmacists Association, and European Society for Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Therapy ROCKVILLE, Md.

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Cancer, genomics and personalised medicine: Modelling the future of oncology

pharmaphorum

Personalised medicine in practice – where are we now in cancer? How the shift towards cancer as a phenotype/genotype is being applied in clinical trials and how they are run •What are co-clinical trials and why could they hold the key to answering unmet need in cancer treatment and beyond into broader drug development?

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Why early participant engagement is now a top priority in genetic disease research

pharmaphorum

Pharmaceutical companies and biotechs are also adapting their approaches, launching patient finding and engagement programmes that can start years before clinical trials begin and allow them to run ‘recontact by genotype’ studies that the Resilience Project would have liked to do. Giving participants something in return. About the author.

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Large-Scale Study Shows Guardant360 Liquid Biopsy Accelerates Clinical Trial Enrollment Compared to Tissue Biopsy

BioTech 365

Nature Medicine Publication Reports that Liquid Biopsy More Than Doubles Clinical Trial Enrollment Rate Compared to Tissue Biopsy REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS Despite advances in precision oncology, progress is slowed by the limitations of tissue genotyping, … Continue reading → Nasdaq: GH).