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Not all neoantigens are created equal

Drug Target Review

During the process of transformation from a normal cell into a cancer cell, a cell acquires a series of changes, or mutations, in its DNA. In most cancers, the tumour evolves by acquiring mutations that confer growth advantages or resistance to therapies. This allows the cancer to evolve and develop resistance to the therapy.

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Boehringer Ingelheim and Twist Bioscience Enter Therapeutic Antibody Discovery Collaboration

The Pharma Data

By leveraging our unique ability to manufacture DNA at scale, we can construct proprietary antibody libraries precisely designed to match sequences that occur in the human body. The core of the platform is a proprietary technology that pioneers a new method of manufacturing synthetic DNA by “writing” DNA on a silicon chip.

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Monkey Embryos Grow to 25 Days — No Womb Required

Codon

3/ Prime Editing Spree Prime editors can change DNA in ways that Cas9 — and even base editors — cannot. Known as a "search-and-replace" gene-editing tool, prime editors can delete or replace DNA up to 10,000 bases in length, or substitute one base for another. Read more in Cell. ( #1 , #2 ) (Video credit: Gong Y.

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Monkey Embryos Grow to 25 Days — No Womb Required

Codon

3/ Prime Editing Spree Prime editors can change DNA in ways that Cas9 — and even base editors — cannot. Known as a "search-and-replace" gene-editing tool, prime editors can delete or replace DNA up to 10,000 bases in length, or substitute one base for another. Read more in Cell. ( #1 , #2 ) (Video credit: Gong Y.

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Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) in Clinical Trials: Challenges and Opportunities

Vial

In 2017, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first gene therapy for cancer and for inherited diseases, the first multiplex NGS panel for companion diagnostics (CDx), and the first drug targeting a genetic signature though not a disease. Fountzilas et al. Satam et al.

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Latest news on drug repurposing in oncology #19

The Anticancer Fund

Using patient-derived xenograft models the authors then show that the addition of celecoxib to standard of care targeted therapies leads to improved survival and durable responses. COX2 inhibition, using celecoxib, reduces PGE2 and averts the resistance to BRAF treatment. These results clearly warrant clinical investigation.

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Molecular map reveals insights into the genetic drivers of chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Broad Institute

To build the CLL map, the team analyzed variations in genetic sequences, gene expression patterns, and chemical modifications to DNA — or genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenomic data — from 1,148 patients.