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Turning science into business: Amplifying mRNA by targeting regRNAs

Drug Discovery World

DDW’s Diana Spencer speaks to Josh Mandel-Brehm , CEO of Massachusetts-based biotech CAMP4, to understand the role regulatory RNAs play in gene expression and how the founders overcame the challenge of launching a business based on brand new science. JMB: Since the early days of CAMP4, we have always followed the science.

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Marvin Caruthers receives inaugural Merkin Prize in ceremony at the Broad Institute for DNA synthesis technology

Broad Institute

Related links Merkin Prize Inaugural Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to Dr. Marvin Caruthers for developing technology that efficiently synthesizes DNA The inaugural Richard N. Caruthers was announced as the winner in June for his development, in 1981, of an efficient, automated technology for synthesizing DNA.

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Tech Focus: How is HTS accelerating early-stage drug discovery?

Drug Discovery World

Self-assembled monolayer desorption ionisation According to Zachary Gurard-Levin, PhD, Science Director, Discovery, Charles River: “HTS assays often rely on reporter systems, including optical and fluorescent labels, to inform on enzyme activity or cellular phenotype.

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Addressing increasingly resistant drugs by infectious agents

Drug Target Review

10 Reported cAMP as the second messenger signalling molecule conserved from bacteria to humans and modulates several biological processes, including protein expression, gene transcription, and cell development and differentiation. In this assay, active compounds are discovered under physiologically relevant conditions. Sebastian, B.,

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The doors CRISPR libraries have and will open in phenotypic drug screening 

Drug Discovery World

Steve Wowk , VP, Business Unit and General Management of Integrated DNA Technologies, shared with DDW the value of CRISPR-Cas9 in drug discovery. In an effort to defend themselves against viral infection, bacterial cells capture and copy DNA fragments of bacteriophages into their genome.

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A therapy candidate for fatal prion diseases turns off disease-causing gene

Broad Institute

By Greta Friar, Whitehead Institute June 27, 2024 Images of a mouse brain show the effect of a technology called CHARM in turning off the expression of a gene in the brain. Like Cas9, ZFPs can serve as guide proteins to direct the tool to a target site in DNA. Credit: Neumann EN, Bertozzi TM, et al. Online June 27, 2024.

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What Biology Can Learn from Physics

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Natural science can learn a great deal from physics, where progress is made by proposing new models and then demonstrating their veracity through experiments. Such a model would make it possible to discover protein functions by scraping metagenomic databases , or to create proteins with functions that exist nowhere in nature.