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RNA processing in health and disease: challenges and opportunities of the field

Drug Target Review

In this article Drug Target Review’s Izzy Wood spoke to Sam Hasson, Director of Target Biology at Rgenta Therapeutics, a biotech firm in Massachusetts, US, that aims to develop small molecule therapeutics to target RNA processing. The field is faced with a number of obstacles that require specifically assay technologies to surmount.

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Scientists reveal cellular changes unique to early Alzheimer’s disease

Broad Institute

By Allessandra DiCorato September 28, 2023 Credit: Strittmatter Laboratory, Yale University Amyloid beta clusters (red) builds up among neurons (green) in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. The scientists identified a suite of changes in cells unique to the early stages of Alzheimer’s, including some not seen before in animal studies.

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RNA interference and its role in Alzheimer’s disease

Drug Target Review

Scientists from Northwestern Medicine have demonstrated that RNA interference could have a crucial role in the onset and development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Alzheimer’s disease Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia. 4 Short RNAs (sRNAs) do not code for proteins.

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Therapeutic Oligos 2025 Keynote Speakers Announced

Elrig

This second ELRIG meeting on Therapeutic Oligonucleotides brings together esteemed scientists from academia, industry, and other members of the drug discovery community to explore the discovery, validation, and targeting of oligonucleotide-based drug candidates, including antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) and small interfering RNA (siRNA).

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Exploring liver disease therapies  

Drug Target Review

Our primary focus is to design and develop RNA therapies for liver diseases. Using humans as the model, we use an approach called deep phenotyping to explore the relationships between cells, genes, biological pathways and patterns of disease. At present, we test discarded human livers deemed not good enough for transplant.

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Macrophage cell therapy: a new hope for chronic liver disease patients

Drug Target Review

What are the main challenges currently faced in the treatment of chronic liver diseases, and how does Resolution Therapeutics aim to address these challenges? Once a patient develops advanced cirrhosis/end-stage liver disease there are no specific therapies to significantly avoid major decompensations and death in the next few years.

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The rising impact of biomarkers in early clinical development

Drug Target Review

As our understanding of the underlying biology of disease grows more sophisticated, emerging therapies operate on increasingly complex biopathological systems and mechanisms. These fields explore highly precise biological processes related to RNA, specific proteins and gene expression mechanisms.