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Therapeutic Oligos 2025 Keynote Speakers Announced

Elrig

It will also cover recent advancements in broadening their application, including innovative approaches to ensure their safety and efficacy, the use of targeted delivery to reach disease-relevant tissues as well as success stories in bringing therapeutic oligonucleotides to the clinic.

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Vitamin A and its role in psychiatric and other disorders

Drug Target Review

In other words, a disease state may cause a change in vitamin A levels rather than the vitamin A levels causing a change in disease state. Again, in this circumstance adding the vitamin will not help therapeutically with the disease state. Secondly, it’s difficult to separate causation from reverse causation.

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Case study: NCI’s Molecular Targets Platform

The Open Targets Blog

The CCDI Molecular Targets Platform (MTP) is a collaborative effort between the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Frederick National Laboratory with input from the NCI and the U.S. Data integration under common ontological terms will aid in categorising diseases, genes, and agents. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Case study: Extracting tidy data from Open Targets Genetics with Otargen

The Open Targets Blog

Amir Feizi is the Director of Bioinformatics at OMass Therapeutics, a spinout from Professor Dame Carol Robinson’s Laboratory at the University of Oxford. OMass Therapeutics is using a new technology platform to develop treatments for rare immunological and genetic diseases with high unmet patient needs.

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Leading Microbiome Researcher Dr. Eric Pamer Joins Diversigen’s Scientific Advisory Board

The Pharma Data

Professor of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases and Global Health and director of the Duchossois Family Institute at the University of Chicago, has joined its scientific advisory board. His research focuses on the role of the microbiome in immune defense and disease resistance. “We Diversigen, Inc.

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Malaria unravelled: decoding the parasite’s gene expression control

Drug Target Review

The study suggests that this regulatory system could be a potential target for future malaria treatments, offering hope for combatting this deadly disease that affects millions worldwide. The first identification was based on a bioinformatic analysis.

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A new viral surveillance system in West Africa is showing the world how to prevent the next pandemic

Broad Institute

He started to imagine how the deadly and contagious disease, if confirmed, might spread to half the city’s population. Eight of the 20 patients died, but the spread of the disease in Nigeria stopped there. Blood and urine samples from the man were waiting for Happi in his lab. Happi felt chilled. They called the idea Sentinel.

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