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Spirulina’s role in shaping the future of preventative biologics

Drug Target Review

Finrow highlights the economic challenges within the sector, particularly the reluctance of doctors to use new antibiotics when cheaper generic options are available. “Doctors face incentives to prioritise generic antibiotic use first because they are cheaper, leaving novel antibiotics as a last resort.

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Driving efficiency across upstream bioprocess workflow

Drug Target Review

As discussed above, recent advances in gene editing tools and transposon-based vectors have facilitated targeted and consistent cell line engineering for the development of protein expressing CHO cell lines. Anis also serves on the scientific and editorial advisory board of Genetic Engineering News at Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

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Stoke Therapeutics Announces Presentations Related to the Company’s Work to Advance STK-001, the First Potential New Medicine to Target the Underlying Cause of Dravet Syndrome at the American Epilepsy Society (AES) 2020 Annual Meeting

The Pharma Data

protein expression by leveraging the non-mutant (wild-type) copy of the SCN1A gene to restore physiological Na V 1.1 Participants continue to receive their usual care, and will be observed by a team of doctors and nurses over time for up to two years. .–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Stoke Therapeutics , Inc.

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

Broad Institute

As reported last year in ACS Chemical Biology , Wang’s lab developed a way to construct messenger-oligonucleotide conjugated RNAs with chemically modified tails, a strategy that reduced RNA degradation while increasing therapeutic protein expression in cells. Wang concluded her presentation by expressing gratitude to Merkin.

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