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Cell and gene therapy development moves into cardiac indications

Drug Target Review

Viral vectors, such as adeno-associated viruses (AAVs), are commonly used to deliver therapeutic genes to cardiac cells. RNA-based therapies, including mRNA and RNA interference (RNAi), are being explored to modulate gene expression in heart cells. Allogeneic cell therapies must avoid immune rejection.

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Delivering on the promise of gene editing

Drug Discovery World

As gene editing technologies like CRISPR progress toward clinical study, researchers must continue to advance new approaches and address inherent challenges, explains Jon Chesnut, PhD, Senior Director, Cell Biology R&D, Thermo Fisher Scientific. Reduce/eliminate chromosomal disruptions caused by double-strand DNA breaks.

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Codon Digest: Vaccine Printer Go Brrrrr!

Codon

This works for many different cell types, and the method can also be used to deliver several different gene editors at once. It’s an easier way to get CRISPR into cells! Other methods to deliver Cas9 (like with viruses) are way less efficient, and seem to vary wildly from one cell to the next. From Zhang et al.

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Codon Digest: Vaccine Printer Go Brrrrr!

Codon

This works for many different cell types, and the method can also be used to deliver several different gene editors at once. It’s an easier way to get CRISPR into cells! Other methods to deliver Cas9 (like with viruses) are way less efficient, and seem to vary wildly from one cell to the next. From Zhang et al.

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Codon Digest: CAR-T Therapy for Neuroblastoma

Codon

.” This technology could be used to design protein therapeutics that can bind to, and “shut down,” harmful or misfolded proteins in living cells. Thousands of transcription factors — proteins that bind DNA and control gene expression — were studied in human cells. Nature Cell Biology.

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Codon Digest: GPT-4 Controls a Robot

Codon

This looks like an early step toward a much different future for biology: One in which natural language is used to design experiments, program robots, and automate experiments in high-throughput. Skin microbes can trigger strong immune responses. epidermidis , can actually trigger tumor-specific T cells. coli K12 biofilm.