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How 3D genomics can accelerate personalised medicine

Drug Discovery World

3D genome folding DNA within the cell nucleus is more than the simple linear thread of primary sequence; it is tightly packed and folded non-randomly in a cell-type specific manner. Systematic localization of common disease-associated variation in regulatory DNA. Nature 2014:1-6. Science 2012;337(6099):1190-1195.

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Enhancing gene therapy with Circio

Drug Target Review

What are the key findings of Circio’s in vivo proof-of-concept for its circVec circular RNA platform technology compared to conventional mRNA-based expression with DNA vectors? DNA vectors in mouse models? Circular RNA (circRNA) has two major advantages versus mRNA in a vector-expression context.

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What Limits a Genome’s Size?

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billion bases of DNA which, if unfurled, would extend for more than 100 meters—taller than the Statue of Liberty. billion bases of DNA, the human genome measures just 2 meters in length when stretched end-to-end. Credit: Oriane Hidalgo Per the book Cell Biology by the Numbers , each base pair of DNA occupies 1 nm 3 of space.

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Breaking the Speed Limit on Cell Division

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However, they plod along as they clone plasmids—the loops of DNA that biologists use to manipulate and study organisms—because propagating them relies, in part, on the pace at which cells grow and divide. Most medicines, including insulin and semaglutide (the weight loss drug), are made using DNA cloning. However, E.

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The use of base editing in stem-cell based therapies

Drug Discovery World

Such stocks have already been created using conventional CRISPR-Cas9 approaches; however, cells edited with CRISPR-Cas9 have an increased risk of random insertions and deletions (indels) which are introduced during a cell’s intrinsic DNA repair process following a DNA double strand break (DSB) from Cas9. 1998;282:1145–1147. 1702625.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. billion units of DNA code are transcribed into more than a hundred volumes, each a thousand pages long, in type so small as to be barely legible.” You can read all of them here.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. billion units of DNA code are transcribed into more than a hundred volumes, each a thousand pages long, in type so small as to be barely legible.” You can read all of them here.