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Key industry partnerships advancing drug discovery

Drug Discovery World

Otsuka Pharmaceutical and Ionis Pharmaceuticals Otsuka Pharmaceutical and RNA therapy company Ionis have entered into a licence agreement for Otsuka to acquire exclusive marketing rights to Ionis’ hereditary angioedema (HAE) drug candidate donidalorsen in Europe. His research focuses on immunotherapies for patients with breast cancer.

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Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to F. William Studier for development of widely used protein- and RNA-production platform

Broad Institute

William Studier for development of widely used protein- and RNA-production platform By Corie Lok May 14, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to F. By Broad Communications May 14, 2024 F. Studier will be honored in a prize ceremony held on September 17, 2024. Photo courtesy of BNL.

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Q&A With Dr. Norbert Makori and Pierre Jolicoeur: The Benefits of Combining Preclinical and Bioanalytical for Your Gene Therapy Studies

Alta Sciences

Q&A With Dr. Norbert Makori and Pierre Jolicoeur: The Benefits of Combining Preclinical and Bioanalytical for Your Gene Therapy Studies pmjackson Fri, 03/01/2024 - 22:20 Recent advances in gene therapy have allowed for diseases to be approached differently.

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The future outlook for mRNA therapies

Drug Discovery World

Messenger RNA (mRNA) has come into focus within the drug discovery and development as an exciting tool to deliver genetic information. mRNA is a molecule made up of a single strand of ribonucleic acid (RNA). At the start of 2024, the first patients in a clinical trial investigating an mRNA cancer therapy were dosed.

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Synthetic Origins

Codon

I was reading a lot of molecular biology papers about different systems, especially circadian clocks, and also a book called Biological Feedback , by Thomas and D’Ari, that sketched out really simple models for different kinds of feedback circuits. The exported RNA could transfect just the target cell. Asimov Press (2024).

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Breaking the Speed Limit on Cell Division

Codon

Proteins are colored blue and RNA molecules are colored orange and yellow. RNA and proteins comprise each ribosome, but the cell synthesizes these two biomolecules at different rates. Recall that a typical ribosome in bacteria is built from 50 proteins and 3 strands of RNA. ” Asimov Press (2024). But it can improve.

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AI At The Frontier: Empowering Early Career Professionals In Drug Discovery

Elrig

She has played a key role inbuilding the target identification platform and a proprietary database of transcriptome-wide, functional RNA structures. Joining Isomorphic Labs in October 2024, I’m thrilled to be part of their mission to revolutionize DD through AI/ML.