Scienmag

JUNE 9, 2022

A buildup of cells, proteins, or other molecules that are no longer needed can cause problems, so living things have evolved several ways to clean house. NEW YORK, JUNE 9, 2022 – In biology, getting rid of stuff can be just as important as making it. Credit: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, JUNE […].

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 21, 2024

A project focused on developing a small RNA-based platform technology for treating monogenic diseases, smartRNA, has joined the BioInnovation Institute’s (BII) Bio Studio programme. The technology has platform potential, as it leverages a universal small RNA pathway to target generic mRNA features.

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Scienmag

MARCH 4, 2021

Findings explain how plants use RNA to defend against fungal invaders Credit: Nicole Ward Gauthier/University of Kentucky New research reveals an essential step in scientists’ quest to create targeted, more eco-friendly fungicides that protect food crops.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 20, 2023

Targovax has unveiled plans to rebrand as Circio , reflecting its strategic shift to focus on expediting the development of its innovative circular RNA (circRNA) platform. Initially reported in 2011, CircRNA is a naturally occurring class of RNA.

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Scienmag

MAY 7, 2021

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 7, 2022

By combining CRISPR technology with a protein designed with artificial intelligence (AI), it is possible to awaken individual dormant genes by disabling the chemical “off switches” that silence them. Ruohola-Baker and Levy then fused this designed protein with a disabled version of a protein called Cas9. it can be reawakened.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 18, 2024

By building and iterating on RNA sequences through the CodonCracker software and the Nutcracker Manufacturing Unit, Nutcracker reported that its scientists engineered a group of molecules with attenuated PSMA and CD3 (cluster of differentiation 3) binding to mitigate on-target, off-tumour binding and target-independent T cell activation.

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Scienmag

MAY 5, 2021

Transcription is a vital process in bacterial cell, where genetic information in DNA is transcribed to RNA for the translation of proteins that perform cellular function. Credit: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology The emergence and spread of new forms of resistance remains a concern that urgently demand new antibiotics.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Scientists from an international group led by the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences and Yokohama City University have discovered that a pair of proteins play a key role in allowing an important type of functional non-coding RNA, known as SINEUPs, to act to promote their target messenger RNA.SINEUPs are a recently discovered type of […]. (..)

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Scienmag

MARCH 9, 2021

No treatment is currently available to fight this disease, which is due to the overexpression of a specific protein. Scientists from the CNRS, INSERM, the AP-HP and the […]. It affects the peripheral nerves and causes progressive paralysis of the legs and hands.

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STAT News

AUGUST 17, 2022

  The hunt for cancer cures has, to a large degree, been a hunt for biomarkers — DNA, peptides, RNA, proteins or more — that might set tumor cells apart from healthy tissue. On Target is a recurring feature from STAT that dives deep into the most promising drug targets in oncology. 

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 23, 2022

Polymerase is a viral protein that directs how Ebola virus replicates its genome as it infects new hosts. Now scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and Scripps Research have found a promising strategy for stopping Ebola virus polymerase. and University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Professor Alexander Bukreyev, Ph.D.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 21, 2023

coli to make all their life-sustaining proteins from 61 sets of genetic building blocks, or codons, instead of the naturally occurring 64. The HMS team figured out that the key lay in transfer RNAs (tRNAs). Each tRNA’s role is to recognise a specific codon and add the corresponding amino acid to a protein that’s being built.

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XTalks

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The answer may lie in the genetic code of the virus, which scientists at Duke University have found contains several silent mutations that affect protein folding. The researchers focused on the spike proteins that protrude from the surface of the coronavirus, which are responsible for viral attachment and entry into host cells.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Scientists at Goethe University within the international consortium COVID19-NMR refine previous 2D models The genetic code of the SARS-CoV2 virus is exactly 29,902 characters long, strung through a long RNA molecule. It contains the information for the production of 27 proteins.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Researchers say they have successfully used a cell’s natural process for making proteins to ‘slide’ genetic instructions into a cell and produce critical proteins missing from those cells. . Two methods currently used to deliver protein-making packages into cells, ‘mini promoters’ and serotype-mediated gene expression, vary widely.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 5, 2022

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have discovered that hepatitis A virus (HAV) replication needs particular interactions between the human protein ZCCHC14 and TENT4 poly(A) polymerases, a group of enzymes. In addition, the scientists later found that the HAV needs TENT4A/B for its replication.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 17, 2024

DS: CAMP4 leverages research from co-founder Richard Young on how regulatory RNA (regRNA) molecules control the expression of genes. JMB: Regulatory RNAs (or regRNAS) are molecules that directly control the expression of nearby protein-coding genes. DS: You describe your therapeutics as RNA Amplifiers. How do they work?

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 24, 2022

New research suggests messenger RNA can be effectively used as a ‘universal’ therapy against different coronaviruses. . Rather than messenger RNA as a vaccine, this shows that mRNA can be used as a universal therapy against different coronaviruses,” said Gaurav Sahay, OSU and the Texas Biomedical Research Institute.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 11, 2024

Researchers have used messenger RNA (mRNA) to create an effective therapy for a rare liver disease in preclinical studies, demonstrating the technology’s potential therapeutic use in people. mRNA contains instructions that direct the cells to make proteins.

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 4, 2023

Scientists create compound that can block cancer metastasis Researchers from the University of Liverpool, UK, have created a biomedical compound that has the potential to stop the spread of breast cancer.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 2, 2023

But the new findings answer a fundamental and longstanding question – how epigenetic proteins regulate the processes of transcription and gene expression, through which our genes are read and translated into proteins. But, until now, scientists lacked an understanding of what the chemical tag does, despite many years of research.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 26, 2023

A 2022 study from the Royal College of Physicians and British Pharmacological Society demonstrated the potential of pharmacogenomics, with scientists identifying the genetic cause behind an individual’s drug response for over forty medicines. Just one mutation can lead to a complete change in protein formation.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The technologies cover the whole range of biomolecules from genes to protein to metabolites. Using classical bulk (deep) RNA-Seq on thousands of human blood and tissue samples, Evotec has been building a high-quality molecular patient database – E.MPD. phosphorylations or ubiquitinations).

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

That is according to a New York Times report , which says Moderna is now in dispute with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) after it filed a US patent in the US that claims the company’s scientists invented the vaccine on their own.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A new stem cell model, discovered by researchers exploring the human genome, will help scientists to map out the key genomic changes during early development. Indeed, this latest discovery follows scientists uncovering the genome stage of development in mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) a decade ago.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 22, 2021

According to the US biopharma company, genetic analyses of publicly available sequences for the new variants of SARS-CoV-2 suggest the mutations in the viral spike protein that have made them more transmissible shouldn’t affect the way Veklury (remdesivir) works. The UK strain – known as B.1.1.7

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Perhaps popularized by the COVID-19 vaccines, RNA-based technologies now have the potential to become the next best pesticide to combat crop pests, like insects and fungal pathogens. Over the last year, researchers have been studying the effectiveness of RNA-based pesticides, and there are already a handful of sprays in the works.

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 8, 2022

The virus carries the information to produce a series of proteins, capable of inhibiting antiviral recognition systems of the infected cell. Actually, these systems could identify viral genetic material (here: Ribonucleic acids/RNAs) and sound the alarm. For example, viral RNAs are masked by the addition of a methyl group.

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The Pharma Data

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Several FDA-approved drugs – including for type 2 diabetes, hepatitis C and HIV – significantly reduce the ability of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 to replicate in human cells, according to new research led by scientists at Penn State. ” The findings published today (Feb. 25) in the journal Communications Biology.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 6, 2023

The workshop will be led by hfp consulting, a firm which specialises in career development and leadership training for scientists. This session will take place during the meeting on Saturday, 15 April, 2023 at 11:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST. Location: Orange County Convention Center, Rooms W 340AB.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 20, 2021

The new variant identified in the UK in December shows significant mutations in the Spike protein and receptor binding domain that increase its infectivity. The variant that originated in South Africa carries a mutation in the Spike protein that has been shown to reduce antibody recognition and could therefore affect efficacy of new vaccines.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 22, 2021

As research developments into RNA vaccines help scientists accelerate drug candidates to arm the immune system against coronavirus, Pharma IQ ’s Keeping tabs on Covid-19 update returns with news from some of the biotechnology innovators leading the fight against the global pandemic.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 11, 2023

The molecule, known as lissodendoric acid A, appears to counteract other molecules that can damage DNA, RNA and proteins and even destroy whole cells.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 23, 2023

Scientists from Korea and the US have unveiled the mechanism of radioresistance in GBM cells, identifying therapeutic targets to overcome radioresistance. Researchers have discovered a clinical drug that sensitises glioblastoma (GBM) cells to radiotherapy and could replace the current standard of care.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 30, 2024

Messenger RNA (mRNA) has come into focus within the drug discovery and development as an exciting tool to deliver genetic information. Its job is to carry coding information that is essential to the translation and processing of functional proteins.

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Pharma Mirror

APRIL 21, 2024

With the rapid development of biotechnology and molecular medicine, the introduction of mRNA as a vaccine or therapeutic agent enables the production of almost any desired functional protein/peptide within the human body.

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