Drug Target Review

JUNE 6, 2023

In this IO arena, we continue to search for additional treatments that can further benefit patients. Immune checkpoint inhibitors, a well-established class of IO treatments, are designed to improve the ability of T-cells to fight cancer by removing inhibitory or suppressive mechanisms that may dampen the anti-cancer functions of T cells.

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PLOS: DNA Science

JULY 27, 2023

These patterns can foretell which treatments will likely work and which won’t, how likely and quickly the cancer will spread, and its path in the body. Harvard Medical School researchers recently described an “AI tool” that “Decodes Brain Cancer’s Genome During Surgery,” in the journal Med.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 25, 2023

DDW Editor Reece Armstrong speaks to Dr Darrell Green , Lecturer in RNA Biology Biomedical Research Centre Norwich Medical School University of East Anglia, about his work using next generation sequencing (NGS) and the areas the technology is impacting within drug discovery and development.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The first of the new therapies, developed at Harvard Medical School by a team led by Dr. David Williams, uses a virus to introduce RNA into the extracted bone marrow that turns off BCL11A. These new approaches are more subtle than the most advanced experimental gene therapy for sickle cell disease, a treatment developed by U.S.

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Representing a dominant field of drug discovery, it isn’t surprising that breakthroughs in cancer research were popular with DDW readers in 2023, particularly strategies to overcome treatment resistance and prevent the spread of disease.

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Broad Institute

MARCH 6, 2024

Related news New project aims to map cellular variation in the healthy human brain Researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have uncovered a strikingly similar suite of changes in gene activity in brain tissue from people with schizophrenia and from older adults.

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Drug Target Review

JULY 1, 2024

As a non-opioid, SRP-001 also eliminates abuse potential, positioning it as a safer and effective drug candidate for the treatment of acute and neuropathic pain and migraine headache. How does SRP-001’s safety profile, especially concerning hepatotoxicity and nephrotoxicity, compare to other common pain medications?

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Broad Institute

AUGUST 14, 2023

In three new studies, researchers including a team from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have harmonized and analyzed data on proteins, DNA, RNA, as well as clinical data from more than 1,000 patients across nearly a dozen different cancer types. Zamecnik Chair in Oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center.

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Broad Institute

JANUARY 30, 2024

In others, an infection can cause the immune system to spin out of control, leading to sepsis — organ dysfunction that lacks effective treatments and is often fatal. Bhattacharyya’s lab is continuing to explore the cell’s involvement in severe illness to inform new diagnostic and treatment approaches.

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Broad Institute

AUGUST 31, 2023

Finally, we have an animal model with human-genetic validity and robust neurobiological overlap with human patients that can help scientists learn how existing treatments work and potentially help identify new ones,” said first author Zohreh Farsi, a staff scientist in the Sheng lab. “We

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Broad Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Using single-cell RNA sequencing to analyze gene expression in individual cells, the researchers have found how 86 major cytokines affect 17 immune cell types in mice. For many immune-mediated diseases, there's no cure or treatment. Some patients develop resistance to treatment and we cannot predict who they will be.

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The Pharma Data

APRIL 22, 2023

This latest breakthrough discovery, published in the high impact scientific journal Nature Communications on 27 March 2023, has implications for the development of novel strategies for cancer treatment. “Using a treatment to alleviate stress on immune cells, we found that immune cells were able to kill cancer cells more effectively.

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Broad Institute

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Knowing the molecular changes in neurons, glia, and other brain cells around plaques during the early phases of the disease could help scientists design treatments that work best when given early. Macosko knew samples from these living patients presented a rare chance to observe cells exposed to the initial stages of Alzheimer’s pathology.

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Broad Institute

MAY 2, 2024

Today, she is a senior associate computational biologist in the Getz lab, where she applies computational techniques to DNA and RNA sequencing data to analyze rapid autopsy samples, taken from multiple sites throughout the body at the time of a cancer patient’s death. I love that in all forms of science, you solve problems.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

The mice who received the treatment had double the life expectancy as their counterparts, with a 30% higher survival rate. Peer stated that his team plans to develop a treatment for all cancers and that their technique could be ready for humans within the next two years.

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Broad Institute

JUNE 13, 2023

The results add to our understanding of the development of BPDCN, which is critical to devising new and better treatments for the disease," he continues. To better understand this process, researchers did a deep dive into the genetics of patients' bone marrow, blood, and skin leukemia cells – sequencing the DNA and RNA in individual cells. "We

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 23, 2020

One person familiar with the list said it included the lipids that encase the RNA material in both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, the Times reported. Moderna and other companies that have worked more closely with Operation Warp Speed to develop their vaccines already receive favored treatment from suppliers, the Times reported.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 28, 2020

One person familiar with the list said it included the lipids that encase the RNA material in both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, the Times reported. Moderna and other companies that have worked more closely with Operation Warp Speed to develop their vaccines already receive favored treatment from suppliers, the Times reported.

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