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David Liu receives Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Broad Institute

Base editing, which Lius team developed in 2016, is a gene editing technique that directly converts an individual DNA base pair into a different base pair. Liu became an HHMI investigator in 2005 and joined the JASONs, academic science advisors to the US government, in 2009.

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Gene Therapy Shows No Long-Term Harm in Animals: Study

The Pharma Data

The researchers said the technique could break the cycle of disease passed from mother to baby through mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). The researchers said the first five monkeys born in 2009 at OHSU’s Oregon National Primate Research Center with the aid of the technique all developed normally to adulthood.

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Code breaking and the Human Genome Project

The Open Targets Blog

via Wikimedia Commons) Right: Copy of a DNA sequence faxed in 1989 from teams working on the Human Genome Project (from the Wellcome Collection archives, Image credit: Helena Cornu)  Assembling a team At the core of this of course were people to provide both the intellectual input and the perseverance to make things happen. MORRISON, K.

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ViiV Healthcare Announces Analysis Showing no Antiretroviral Therapy Interruptions Due to COVID-19 Across its Clinical Development Programme for Investigational, Long-Acting Cabotegravir and Rilpivirine

The Pharma Data

INSTIs, like cabotegravir, inhibit HIV replication by preventing the viral DNA from integrating into the genetic material of human immune cells (T-cells). This step is essential in the HIV replication cycle and is also responsible for establishing chronic infection. About ViiV Healthcare.

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Precision Medicine in the Genomic Era

DrugBank

In contrast, non-coding mutations have effects on gene expression, transcript stability, and the physical state of the DNA itself (e.g., 5 , e1000433 (2009). Coding mutations have a more direct effect through direct alteration of a gene product. by altering its accessibility to transcriptional machinery). PLoS Genet. Ozbek, U. &

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TACACICLIB, AUR-102, AURIGENE

New Drug Approvals

Nature Cell Biology, 11, 1275 – 1276, 2009), whilst different tumors appear to require some, but they are independent of other interphase CDKs (CDK2, CDK4 , CDK6). CDK7 also plays a role in transcription and possibly in DNA repair. 27, 6012-6018, 2009; Christian et al., 3, S179-S185, 2009). Mar 23;25(6):839-50.

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Analysis Chemical Thank You EU court upholds ban on chlorpyrifos-methyl, setting regulatory precedent in the process

Agency IQ

In particular, they discussed the potential for genotoxicity, or the potential to damage human DNA, and developmental neurotoxicity, or the negative effect on the developing human nervous system. These experts concluded that there were real concerns regarding the human health risk of chlorpyrifos and CHP-methyl.