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Drug discovery deals highlight key growth areas

Drug Discovery World

GenomeFrontier partners with BioCina on CAR-T therapy CDMO BioCina and GenomeFrontier Therapeutics will partner on the development of virus-free CAR-T products for cancer treatment. BioCina will provide process development and GMP manufacturing for Minicircle DNA and Plasmid DNA.

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Evolved prime editors are smaller and more efficient for therapeutic applications

Broad Institute

Now researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have used cutting-edge continuous laboratory evolution and engineering methods to develop improved versions of the gene-editing tool. Reverse transcriptase proteins that copy RNA templates into strands of DNA are found naturally in all plant and animal cells and in many viruses.

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SARS-CoV-2: advancing the production of the ACE2 protein

Drug Target Review

Researchers from Columbia University and the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have elucidated a method to produce large quantities of the receptor that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein uses to bind to the surface of human cells.

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The immune system’s role in lung cancer risk

Drug Target Review

Dr Chowell spent a year as a visiting graduate student at the Moe Win Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT. During residency, he conducted laboratory research with Dr Timothy Chan investigating predictors of response to immunotherapy as part of the American Board of Radiology Holman Research pathway.

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Phages could help to tackle antimicrobial resistance

Drug Target Review

Researchers from the Laboratory of Bacteriology at The Rockefeller University have now found that bacteria sense phages by a defensive response named CBASS (cyclic oligonucleotide-based antiphage signalling system) which detects viral RNA. Its presence elsewhere would indicate something is wrong. But what, exactly?”

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How digital innovation is helping therapeutics to get to market faster

Drug Discovery World

From finding potential active substances and identifying novel targets, to simulating how drugs will function in the human body and optimising laboratory workflows, digital technologies are having a significant impact on drug discovery and development. Obulytix is not alone.

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Q&A: Gene therapy opportunities from long-read sequencing 

Drug Discovery World

Visualising the whole genome is especially useful when sequencing new organisms, or stretches of DNA with many repeats or translocations, which are difficult to see from short sections of DNA code. Long-read data allows researchers to comprehensively discover, design and confirm AAV gene therapy approaches.

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