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Join DDW for the SLAS2024 Ignite Theater ‘Innovation from lab to patient’

Drug Discovery World

Most drugs under development today are designed to do the same thing: inhibit the function of proteins that contribute to disease. But this strategy misses a vast therapeutic opportunity: addressing the many diseases that are caused by insufficient levels or impaired function of otherwise beneficial proteins,” Bushell explains. “By

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A therapy candidate for fatal prion diseases turns off disease-causing gene

Broad Institute

By Greta Friar, Whitehead Institute June 27, 2024 Images of a mouse brain show the effect of a technology called CHARM in turning off the expression of a gene in the brain. CHARMs are an elegant solution to the problem of silencing disease genes, and they have the potential to have an important position in the future of genetic medicines.”

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How Lume Whole Body Deodorant Was Inspired by a Genetic Disease

PLOS: DNA Science

A Compelling Need I was delighted to discover that the inspiration for Lume is a rare, recessive genetic disease, trimethylaminuria (TMAU), aka “fish odor syndrome.” ” But, tellingly, “Neither the law nor FDA regulations require specific tests to demonstrate the safety of individual products or ingredients.”

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Raising Welfare for Lab Rodents

Codon

These rats, known as AA or P-lines, serve as animal models of alcoholism, exhibiting high alcohol-seeking behavior, withdrawal symptoms, and a predisposition to co-abuse ethanol and nicotine. Of course, AA and P-line rats are not the only research animals bred for the study of disease. 1 Subscribe to Asimov Press.

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