Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 4, 2023

In the study, published in Nature Cancer , researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center used comprehensive immune profiling in mouse and human pancreatic cancers to systematically identify mechanisms of immunotherapy resistance and investigate potential therapeutic targets. . Details of the study .

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PLOS: DNA Science

MAY 16, 2024

That’s thanks to accelerated genome sequencing technologies, expanded laboratory capabilities, and interacting infrastructure on a global level. As soon as the initial RNA genome sequence of the pathogen that would be named SARS-CoV-2 was published, CDC and other organizations began developing diagnostic tests.

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Codon

AUGUST 27, 2024

When doctors sequenced the DNA and RNA found in Alice’s blood and synovial fluid—the liquid that surrounds and lubricates joints—they found abnormally low levels of genes encoding iron-storing proteins and high levels of epidermal growth factor receptor RNA. At least nine laboratories outside the U.S.

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Codon

APRIL 2, 2024

But in those early years, everything in the laboratory was so slow and difficult. AP: We can’t even grow most types of cells in the laboratory. Like, if we start thinking about therapeutic circuits, how can we design the components in such a way that they are not going to cause an immune response? Elowitz: Exactly.

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

A LEGO robot , made by undergraduate students at Arizona State University, pours sucrose gradients (a tube with dense liquid at the bottom, and less dense liquid at the top), which are used to separate, say, proteins from RNA by spinning them really fast in centrifuges. How do transcription factors couple up with the correct RNA molecule?

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

A LEGO robot , made by undergraduate students at Arizona State University, pours sucrose gradients (a tube with dense liquid at the bottom, and less dense liquid at the top), which are used to separate, say, proteins from RNA by spinning them really fast in centrifuges. How do transcription factors couple up with the correct RNA molecule?

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Broad Institute

JUNE 27, 2024

CRISPRoff silences the targeted gene by adding methyl groups, chemical tags that prevent the gene from being transcribed or read into RNA and so from being expressed as protein. ZFPs are also common in human cells, meaning they are less likely to trigger an immune response against themselves than the bacterial Cas9.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 12, 2023

According to a McKinsey & Company article 2 , new drug modalities (such as RNA therapeutics, protein degraders, cyclopeptides, ADCs, cell and gene therapies) have almost doubled from 11% to 21% of the drug pipeline. Results were achieved using routine laboratory tests. 1 mL) and microtissue vs microscale OOC systems.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 20, 2023

According to a McKinsey & Company article 2 , new drug modalities (such as RNA therapeutics, protein degraders, cyclopeptides, ADCs, cell and gene therapies) have almost doubled from 11% to 21% of the drug pipeline. Results were achieved using routine laboratory tests. 1 mL) and microtissue vs microscale OOC systems.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Enkelejda Miho, PhD, Professor, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, and Managing Director, aiNET, on: ‘The singular immune response to dengue and machine learning identification of antibodies in high-throughput sequences’.

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Codon

APRIL 9, 2023

Small snippets of double-stranded RNA were sprayed onto hot pepper plants to control a pest, called Frankliniella occidentalis. The RNA strands shut down a specific gene in the insects, and killed half after 7 days. RNA may offer a safer form of pest control in the future. Robinson A.O. Nature Chemical Biology. Current Biology.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 13, 2021

The vaccine produced an immune response of all 805 clinical trial participants within two months of inoculation, according to results published Jan. More than 90% of participants mounted an immune response within a month, and all had levels of neutralizing antibodies by day 57. WEDNESDAY, Jan. vaccination efforts.

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Codon

APRIL 23, 2023

Most people would take the two CRISPR gene-editing components (a Cas9 protein and guide RNA), package them up inside of a virus, and then inject the viruses into the skulls of mice. Unfortunately, they can also trigger immune responses, and they are not super efficient at gene-editing some parts of the brain.

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Codon

APRIL 23, 2023

Most people would take the two CRISPR gene-editing components (a Cas9 protein and guide RNA), package them up inside of a virus, and then inject the viruses into the skulls of mice. Unfortunately, they can also trigger immune responses, and they are not super efficient at gene-editing some parts of the brain.

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Codon

APRIL 16, 2023

Skin microbes can trigger strong immune responses. These microbes were engineered to express tumor antigens that could “elicit T cells that were licensed by the commensal immune program but specific for a tumor,” including both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, according to the study. Nature Communications. Science Advances.

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