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Unlocking the potential of synthetic DNA 

Drug Discovery World

Raquel Sanches-Kuiper , Vice President of Science and Applications at Evonetix, and Clare Whitewoods , Marketing Communications Manager at Evonetix, look at the benefits synthetic DNA brings to pharmaceutical development.

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2023 cancer research highlights: Drug development at its best

Drug Discovery World

Lu Rahman selects some of the year’s interesting and noteworthy advances in cancer research drug discovery and development. As always, a year within cancer drug discovery and development brings with it significant breakthroughs, and 2023 has been no exception. million new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed in the US in 2023”.

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Researchers engineer bacteria that can detect tumor DNA

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Pushing into a new chapter of technologically advanced biological sensors, scientists from the University of California San Diego and their colleagues in Australia have engineered bacteria that can detect the presence of tumor DNA in a live organism.

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DDW top reads in 2023

Drug Discovery World

DDW’s top 10 most popular articles for 2023 reflect the key subjects in drug discovery and development. Regulatory issues and diversity in clinical trials were also important in 2023, as well as the role that artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT might play. This popular market report was featured in the Spring 2023 issue of DDW.

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Junk DNA: How the dark genome is changing RNA therapies

Drug Discovery World

Samir Ounzain , PhD, CEO & Co-Founder of HAYA Therapeutics, looks at how a better understanding of our DNA can lead to increased activity for RNA therapeutics. Many scientists are now discovering that this junk DNA plays an essential role in our biology and the epigenetic processes that respond to the environment to drive disease.

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Tuesday 18 April at AACR Annual Meeting 2023

Drug Discovery World

DDW’s Megan Thomas rounds up highlights from Tuesday 17 April at AACR 2023, from AI and mathematical oncology to winners of the AACR James S Ewing-Thelma B Dunn Award for Outstanding Achievement in Pathology in Cancer Research. Dunn Award for Outstanding Achievement in Pathology in Cancer Research. Read more here. AACR James S.

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World Mental Health Day 2023: Drug discovery breakthroughs

Drug Discovery World

A new class of antidepressants In July 2023, AlzeCure Pharma published the results of a preclinical study supporting the antidepressive effects ACD856, the first in a new class of antidepressants. Over recent months, there have been a number of ground-breaking discoveries in drug discovery for mental health conditions.