Drug Target Review

JULY 24, 2023

Through phylogenetic analysis and microscopy techniques, they identified a nuclear-encoded apicoplast RNA polymerase σ subunit called ApSigma. 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.

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PLOS: DNA Science

MAY 16, 2024

These factors are converging to enable both identification of novel infectious diseases as well as microbial resistance, before these threats can impact public health, write a team from the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Frontiers in Science. COVID clearly caught us off guard.

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Vial

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Among others, NGS has led to the identification of disease-causing variants and novel drug targets and an improved understanding of complex biological events, e.g., the heterogeneity of tumors. Methods of analysis include whole-genome sequencing (WGS), whole-exome sequencing (WES), and targeted sequencing.

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The Open Targets Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

  With a background in biochemistry and bioinformatics, Lucy was interested in exploring how bioinformatics was applied to real-world healthcare data. I just graduated with a degree in Bioinformatics, and I was interested to see how the skills I learned could be applied.

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Elrig

APRIL 29, 2024

With a background in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, she has a keen interest in using technology to solve problems in healthcare and medicine. She has played a key role inbuilding the target identification platform and a proprietary database of transcriptome-wide, functional RNA structures.

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Codon

AUGUST 27, 2024

Doctors in training are told that when they hear hoofbeats, they should think horses, not zebras; rare diseases are the exception, not the rule. Sometimes, though, novel diseases do emerge, and as COVID-19 demonstrated, they can surprise us. This is the third essay of four in our pandemic mini-issue.

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Codon

MAY 15, 2023

Made from a Cas9 nickase (the histidine at amino acid position 840 is swapped for an alanine) fused to a reverse transcriptase enzyme (which makes DNA from RNA; transcription in reverse), prime editing clinical trials are expected to begin by 2025. Early targets may include sickle-cell disease, Friedrich’s ataxia, and cystic fibrosis.

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