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The role of RNA in immunotherapies

Drug Discovery World

Reece Armstrong speaks to Samuel Deutsch , Chief Scientific Officer of Nutcracker Therapeutics about the RNA landscape and how it can benefit the development of immunotherapies. RA: What role does RNA play in the development of effective immunotherapies? RA: What lessons for RNA development did we learn from the Covid-19 pandemic?

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Silencing RNA causes moles to self-destruct in rare condition

Drug Discovery World

The team used a genetic therapy called silencing RNA, which blocks the action of the mutated NRAS in mole skin cells. Diana Spencer, Senior Digital Content Editor, DDW The post Silencing RNA causes moles to self-destruct in rare condition appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW). The therapy was delivered directly to mole cells.

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Roche and ABL Diagnostics expand to South African laboratories  

Drug Discovery World

Roche Diagnostics and ABL Diagnostics have launched a distribution partnership which will see Roche supplying ABLD products to South African laboratories. Roche now has exclusive rights to distribute products, including the ABL DeepChek assays to laboratories implementing microbiology applications.

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Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to F. William Studier for development of widely used protein- and RNA-production platform

Broad Institute

William Studier for development of widely used protein- and RNA-production platform By Corie Lok May 14, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to F. William Studier developed the T7 expression technology at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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smartRNA project joins BII Bio Studio programme

Drug Discovery World

A project focused on developing a small RNA-based platform technology for treating monogenic diseases, smartRNA, has joined the BioInnovation Institute’s (BII) Bio Studio programme. The technology has platform potential, as it leverages a universal small RNA pathway to target generic mRNA features.

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Discovery and development of COVID?19 vaccine from laboratory to clinic

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

The development of vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 becomes more difficult due to the viral mutation in its non-structural proteins (NSPs) especially NSP2 and NSP3, S protein, and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp).

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How (and Why) the Octopus Edits its RNA

PLOS: DNA Science

But some species control genetic responses another way – via RNA editing. In a new report in Cell , Joshua Rosenthal of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods’ Hole and Eli Eisenberg at Tel Aviv University describe how the cephalopods – octopi, squid, and cuttlefish – change mRNAs in ways that alter enzymes.

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