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The rising impact of biomarkers in early clinical development

Drug Target Review

Haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is a validated surrogate endpoint for the reduction of microvascular complications associated with diabetes mellitus; reduced HIV-RNA levels serve as an endpoint for HIV disease control; and a reduction in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is used as an endpoint indicating lower likelihood of cardiovascular events.

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Decoding stem cells for personalised regenerative medicine

Drug Target Review

Forging the toolkit for subcellular omics Cellular components known as organelles, consisting of RNA and protein, exert vital influences on human wellbeing and ailments by sustaining equilibrium, managing growth and ageing, and producing energy.

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Therapeutic Oligos 2025 Keynote Speakers Announced

Elrig

Prof Rory Johnson, Associate Professor, University College Dublin, and Dr Shalini Andersson, Vice President Nucleic Acid Therapeutics, AstraZeneca will lead this years event focussed on drugging the undruggable.

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Reinventing the small molecule toolbox: from proteins to RNA

Dark Matter Blog

Prior to 2015, I had a casual relationship, at best, with targeting RNA. Targeting RNA is a Whole New World Then in 2015, I became smitten and eloped with RNA, setting out to build a company devoted to bringing to bear industrial drug discovery concepts and methods on a new problem of drugging RNA with small molecules.

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A Squishy Sea Creature Regenerates a Body from a Severed Head

PLOS: DNA Science

Although the researchers followed all of these events with color-labeled DNA, the details of how the cells at the injury site are reprogrammed into a state of stemness are still a mystery. Analyzing RNA Revealed the Regeneration The researchers analyzed RNA to reconstruct the steps to regeneration. Do humans have similar genes?

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Broad-MIT Seminars in Chemical Biology: Phil Holliger

Broad Institute

Although this ancestral replicase appears to have been lost, key aspects of RNA-catalyzed RNA replication can be studied by proxy with the use of modern RNA enzymes (ribozymes) generated by in vitro evolution.

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Fierce Pharma Forward: Drug Development and Delivery Insights for 2024

Fierce BioTech

Fierce Pharma Forward: Drug Development and Delivery Insights for 2024 Join us for the inaugural Fierce Pharma Forward, a virtual event where industry leaders will explore the latest innovations in drug delivery and development. drug delivery development costs Resource Type Questex Event Fierce Pharma 250x190.png