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Genetic profiling of Lyme disease could bring new therapeutic targets 

Drug Discovery World

The study is the first to use transcriptomics as a blood test to measure RNA levels in patients with long-term Lyme disease. . As part of the study, RNA sequencing was conducted using blood samples from 152 patients with symptoms of post-treatment Lyme disease to measure their immune response. .

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How big data analytics can make personalised care a reality

Drug Discovery World

Johannes Goll, Global Head of Emmes’ Biomedical Data Science and Bioinformatics department, explains how big data analytics can deliver improved therapies and bring clinical research one step close to realising the potential of personalised care. Figure 2: Advanced data visualisation examples for transcriptomics data.

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Can Global Genomic Surveillance Forecast the Next Pandemic?

PLOS: DNA Science

As soon as the initial RNA genome sequence of the pathogen that would be named SARS-CoV-2 was published, CDC and other organizations began developing diagnostic tests. • identifies parts of the virus to target to provoke an immune response from a vaccine. Work on vaccines ensued too. It closed a year ago.

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Scientists discover new antiviral defense system in bacteria

Broad Institute

It’s been very exciting to integrate genetics, bioinformatics, biochemistry, and structural biology approaches in one study to understand this fascinating molecular system.” In humans and plants, the STAND ATPase proteins fight infection by recognizing patterns in a pathogen itself or in the cell’s response to infection.

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Defense-Forward Biosecurity

Codon

When doctors sequenced the DNA and RNA found in Alice’s blood and synovial fluid—the liquid that surrounds and lubricates joints—they found abnormally low levels of genes encoding iron-storing proteins and high levels of epidermal growth factor receptor RNA. At least nine laboratories outside the U.S.

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What to expect from PEGS Europe 2023: Day 3

Drug Discovery World

Enkelejda Miho, PhD, Professor, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, and Managing Director, aiNET, on: ‘The singular immune response to dengue and machine learning identification of antibodies in high-throughput sequences’.

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Codon Digest: GPT-4 Controls a Robot

Codon

Skin microbes can trigger strong immune responses. These microbes were engineered to express tumor antigens that could “elicit T cells that were licensed by the commensal immune program but specific for a tumor,” including both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, according to the study. BMC Bioinformatics. McCafferty C.L.