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The evolution of cell therapy to address unmet medical needs

Drug Target Review

The mission of Lineage Cell Therapeutics is to deliver on some of the early promises of cell therapy. Cell therapy as a concept is a wonderful idea, but many of the early efforts never generated the kind of clinical data that gets people excited and leads to new medicines. Hearing aids also have all sorts of deficits.

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A different approach: reimagining biology

Drug Discovery World

Three key members of the team – Dr Raquel Sanches-Kuiper, Vice President of Technology, Dr Matthew Hayes, Chief Technology Officer and John Edgell, Head of Cloud Engineering – explain how the company is doing this and what it means for the advancement of DNA synthesis in the lab. The next goal is to optimise the technology. “At

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What Took So Long: How Tech Has Finally Caught Up With Transcription Factors

LifeSciVC

These hair clip-like molecules clamp onto DNA, thereby turning many genes on and off. Darnell’s 2002 paper Transcription Factors as Targets for Cancer Therapy , in which he wrote: “A limited list of transcription factors are overactive in most human cancer cells, which makes them targets for the development of anticancer drugs.

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OBI Pharma Announces Presentations at ESMO Asia 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting for OBI-833, a Novel Anti-Globo H Targeted Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine

The Pharma Data

is a Taiwan biopharmaceutical company that was established in 2002. The company’s novel first-in-class AKR1C3 targeted therapy is OBI-3424 (small-molecule prodrug) that selectively releases a potent DNA alkylating agent in the presence of the aldo-keto reductase 1C3 (AKR1C3) enzyme. About OBI Pharma. OBI Pharma, Inc.,

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The use of base editing in stem-cell based therapies

Drug Discovery World

Kevin Hemphill, R&D Manager at PerkinElmer’s Horizon Discovery explores how base editing has emerged as an attractive gene editing option for researchers wanting to develop stem cell-based therapies. The first in-person iPSC-derived regenerative therapy trial took place at Kyoto University, Japan.

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Tagging Essential Malaria Genes to Advance Drug Development

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

Combination drug therapies including artemisinin have been introduced to take the place of the older drugs [1], but experts are concerned the mosquito-borne parasites that cause malaria are showing signs of drug resistance again. 2002 Oct 3;419(6906):498-511. [3] In fact, the treatment that cured me would be of little use today.

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Topical Gene Therapy FDA-Approved for Severe Skin Disease, Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa

PLOS: DNA Science

The newest FDA-approved gene therapy treats the severe, skin-peeling condition dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB). The gene treatment has been a long time coming, but it differs from the handful of other approved gene therapies: it isn’t a one-and-done. DEB has been a candidate for a gene therapy since 2002.