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Precision Medicine in the Genomic Era

DrugBank

Modern advances in “omics,” as well as biomarker development, clinical trial design, and mathematical modelling (including artificial intelligence) have revolutionized our ability to precisely define or “stratify” patient populations, splitting them into groups based on their characteristics.

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A research team searches for every gene that helps tumors evade immunotherapy

Broad Institute

By Allessandra DiCorato October 11, 2023 In 2011, Robert Manguso was working in a cell biology lab when his mother was diagnosed with Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and aggressive skin cancer. By then, a few cancer immunotherapies had entered clinical trials and only a handful had been approved by the FDA.

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Cell and gene therapy development moves into cardiac indications

Drug Target Review

By harvesting, expanding, and injecting CD34+ cells directly to the heart muscle, this natural repair mechanism is enhanced. Early-phase clinical trials have shown the safety and efficacy of using stem cells for cardiac repair, encouraging further research and development.

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Codon Digest: Injected Gene Editors

Codon

But now, by studying DNA extracted from microbes in the blood of almost 10,000 healthy people, this paper shows that there is no such thing. Read Transcription factors bind to DNA and control gene expression. They tend to “group up” in cells. Molecular Systems Biology. Nature Microbiology. Meeussen J.V.W.

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Codon Digest: Vaccine Printer Go Brrrrr!

Codon

2/ Live Long and Prosper, Lil’ Yeasty Boys Yeast cells usually live for about one week. Yeast die for two reasons: Either their nucleolus (where the DNA is kept) degrades and dies, or their mitochondria whimpers out and they stop making energy. kilobases” of DNA into a plant genome. (My Nature Cell Biology.

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Codon Digest: Vaccine Printer Go Brrrrr!

Codon

2/ Live Long and Prosper, Lil’ Yeasty Boys Yeast cells usually live for about one week. Yeast die for two reasons: Either their nucleolus (where the DNA is kept) degrades and dies, or their mitochondria whimpers out and they stop making energy. kilobases” of DNA into a plant genome. (My Nature Cell Biology.

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Making Eggs Without Ovaries

Codon

During this process, the cells’ genomes ditch their methyl groups, an important epigenetic mark. Erasing methyl groups on DNA is necessary for normal egg and sperm development. Reaching the oogonia stage marked an impressive achievement in germ cell biology, because previous methods only went up to the PGC stage.

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