Drug Target Review

APRIL 26, 2023

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass), US, have collaborated to create a novel type of nanoparticle that can deliver messenger RNA that encodes for beneficial proteins to the lungs.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 23, 2024

Reece Armstrong speaks to Samuel Deutsch , Chief Scientific Officer of Nutcracker Therapeutics about the RNA landscape and how it can benefit the development of immunotherapies. RA: What role does RNA play in the development of effective immunotherapies? SD: This is definitely a challenge.

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PLOS: DNA Science

JUNE 13, 2024

Experiments at the Wuhan facility were done at the lowest two of the four standard biosafety levels, which were established at the dawn of recombinant DNA research in the 1970s. The Likely Predecessor of SARS-CoV-2 – From my Past Blog Posts I wrote 100+ DNA Science blog posts during the pandemic about the virus.

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Drug Target Review

MAY 22, 2024

What are the key findings of Circio’s in vivo proof-of-concept for its circVec circular RNA platform technology compared to conventional mRNA-based expression with DNA vectors? Circular RNA (circRNA) has two major advantages versus mRNA in a vector-expression context. DNA vectors in mouse models?

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 21, 2024

Accelerating biotherapeutics development through technology platforms Anubhav Tripathi is a Professor of Medical Science and Engineering at Brown University. At Brown, Tripathi’s research group develops biotechnology platforms by integrating biological and engineering principles.

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Broad Institute

JULY 11, 2024

"These findings reveal a completely unexpected and fascinating mechanism that explains the efficacy of the drug," Manguso, who is a principal investigator at MGH, a co-director of the Tumor Immunology Discovery Engine (TIDE) group, and a Cancer Program associate member at Broad, said.

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Codon

AUGUST 28, 2024

Tessa Alexanian and Max Langenkamp build computational DNA screening tools for a living. But today, rapid advances in DNA synthesis have made it possible for would-be bioterrorists to make pathogens, rather than buy them. government must order synthetic DNA from providers who publicly state that they follow the U.S.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 7, 2023

Dr Emily Leproust, Founder and CEO, Twist Biopharma In 2015, Dr LeProust was named one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers for fast-tracking the building blocks of life, and Fast Company named her one of the most creative people in business for synthesising DNA faster than ever. She has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers.

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The Open Targets Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

These results were corroborated by an RNA sequencing analysis we carried out in parallel, which revealed that depending on the temperature, RBM3 had different isoforms created by differential self-splicing. RBM3 is an RNA-binding protein, and we needed an RNA biologist, which is when Deepak joined the project.

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Broad Institute

JANUARY 8, 2024

A team of researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has engineered virus-like particles to deliver prime editors to cells in mice at a high enough efficiency to rescue a genetic disorder. Prime editing, described in 2019 by Liu’s group, can make longer and more diverse types of DNA changes than other types of editing.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 3, 2023

Matthew Clark , CEO of X-Chem, looks at what the future could hold for DNA-encoded library (DEL) technology. In the 13 years since it was first described, DNA-encoded library (DEL) technology has become a firmly established approach to small molecule hit generation in drug discovery. This makes a TPD-DEL workflow quite efficient.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 11, 2023

Now, with the growth of publicly available genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics databases, the ability to quickly carry out large-scale DNA, RNA, and protein screenings, and the availability of massive sets of de-identified patient data, the amount of high-value, analysable data has reached enormous proportions.

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 1, 2023

1 August was first chosen as World RNA Day in 2018 as a play on AUG (adenine, uracil and guanine), a triple sequence of RNA (called a codon) that initiates protein synthesis by the cell. Another potential clinical pathway is to use engineered exogenous circRNAs to produce therapeutic proteins within target cells.

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 27, 2024

SeekRNA uses a programmable ribonucleic acid (RNA) strand that can directly identify sites for insertion in genetic sequences, simplifying the editing process and reducing errors. Dr Ataide added: “SeekRNA can precisely cleave the target site and insert the new DNA sequence without the use of any other proteins.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The company’s suite of market-leading molecular profiling offerings assesses DNA, RNA and proteins to reveal a molecular blueprint that helps physicians and cancer patients make more precise and personalized treatment decisions.

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The mysteries of cancer are starting to yield to the range of advanced therapies available and cell therapies – especially engineered cell therapies – are at the leading edge of that progress.” – Carlo Russo, CEO of Genenta.? . “In Despite this the industry is still expanding. New indications .

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 6, 2024

Oxford Nanopore has developed a new generation of molecular analysis technology, which is used for DNA/RNA sequencing. Furthermore, the generation of epigenetic data (variation in DNA information that can influence many diseases such as cancer) in large-scale studies can unlock discoveries with an impact across healthcare.

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Broad Institute

JUNE 28, 2023

By Leah Eisenstadt June 28, 2023 Credit: Courtesy of the Zhang lab Cryo-EM map of a Fanzor protein in complex with ωRNA and its target DNA. They showed that Fanzor proteins use RNA as a guide to target DNA precisely, and that Fanzors can be reprogrammed to edit the genome of human cells. said Zhang.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A company within this ecosystem is STORM Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotechnology company creating novel small molecule therapies that inhibit RNA modifying enzymes (RME) for use in oncology and other diseases. It has a vibrant community of life-science companies, from global pharma to smaller start-ups.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The brainchild of multidisciplinary experts in computer science, physics, engineering, and biology, the field of synthetic biology has not only rapidly progressed in the last few decades but it’s also becoming more accessible and cost-effective. Rapid and accurate DNA synthesis .

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Codon

JUNE 11, 2024

And unlike traditional DNA sequencers, which parse genetic material by breaking it up into fragments and interpreting it chunk-by-chunk, a nanopore device unspools a long strand of DNA and reads it all at once. A scientist can isolate DNA and load up a flow cell in fifteen minutes. Nanopore devices work incredibly fast.

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Broad Institute

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The scientists found a surprising number and diversity of CRISPR systems, including ones that could make edits to DNA in human cells, others that can target RNA, and many with a variety of other functions. Zhang’s team showed that two of these systems could make short edits in the DNA of human cells.

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NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

JANUARY 5, 2016

This gene-editing system consists of a short segment of RNA that is attached to an enzyme. The RNA is preprogrammed to find a distinct short sequence of DNA and deliver the enzyme, which acts like a scalpel to slice the sequence out of the genome. It’s fast and pretty precise. deaths from unintentional overdoses.

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Drug Target Review

JULY 7, 2023

The reasons for this are multifaceted, including concerns over the safety of directly altering DNA sequences and subsequent regulatory restrictions that have arisen as a result. The epigenome (meaning ‘above the genome’) is a system of reversible marks regulating how the DNA is read, translated and used. What is epigenetic editing?

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Broad Institute

JUNE 27, 2024

Unlike gene editing, this “epigenetic” editing does not modify the underlying DNA sequence, but it should switch the gene off permanently, which means that this could be a one-time treatment. They used an engineered adeno-associated virus (AAV) that crosses the blood-brain barrier after intravenous administration.

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Dark Matter Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Our overall mission at Arrakis is to expand the set of “druggable” targets for small-molecule medicines to include RNA. Today, we are pleased to announce that our article describing one such platform: “ PEARL-seq, A Photoaffinity Platform for the Analysis of Small Molecule-RNA Interactions ” was published in ACS Chemical Biology.

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Codon

JULY 11, 2023

That’s because proteins are made, in the laboratory, using synthetic DNA and cells; and DNA is expensive. Our machine would make proteins without using any DNA or cells. All cells make proteins in two steps: DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA, which is then translated into protein.

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Codon

JULY 11, 2023

That’s because proteins are made, in the laboratory, using synthetic DNA and cells; and DNA is expensive. Our machine would make proteins without using any DNA or cells. All cells make proteins in two steps: DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA, which is then translated into protein.

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Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

After some time in that role and launching several products, I received a call from Bill Banyai and Bill Peck, or ‘The Bills’ as we call them, who were building a company around technology that creates DNA by ‘writing’ it on a silicon chip. Because I was put into the highest tier, I was automatically mapped to the engineering track.

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Codon

JUNE 25, 2024

Kamal Nahas highlights the biological limits on cell division speed and explores how we might engineer cells to grow faster. However, they plod along as they clone plasmids—the loops of DNA that biologists use to manipulate and study organisms—because propagating them relies, in part, on the pace at which cells grow and divide.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 23, 2023

Increasing interest in CRISPR-Cas gene editing systems over recent years has delivered innovative developments in precision genome engineering technologies, holding enormous potential for applications across the healthcare sector. 2016/17 saw the emergence of this novel CRISPR-Cas9-based approach.

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Codon

APRIL 2, 2023

This is Codon Digest, a weekly roundup of research papers, news articles, and industry highlights about engineered biology. 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.

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Codon

APRIL 30, 2023

Read more at Nature Biotechnology ( Similar paper at Nature Biomedical Engineering.) But now, their engineered brethren can live about 82 percent longer. But now, their engineered brethren can live about 82 percent longer. Engineered yeast live longer than their “normal” brethren. From Zhang et al.

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Codon

APRIL 30, 2023

Read more at Nature Biotechnology ( Similar paper at Nature Biomedical Engineering.) But now, their engineered brethren can live about 82 percent longer. But now, their engineered brethren can live about 82 percent longer. Engineered yeast live longer than their “normal” brethren. From Zhang et al.

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Broad Institute

MARCH 22, 2024

Messenger RNAs with multiple “tails” could lead to more effective therapeutics By Corie Lok March 22, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Messenger RNAs with multiple “tails” could lead to more effective therapeutics Scientists have engineered long lasting mRNAs that increased therapeutic protein production in cells and animals.

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. billion units of DNA code are transcribed into more than a hundred volumes, each a thousand pages long, in type so small as to be barely legible.” LEGO robot to make sucrose gradients.

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. billion units of DNA code are transcribed into more than a hundred volumes, each a thousand pages long, in type so small as to be barely legible.” LEGO robot to make sucrose gradients.

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