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The Role of Oncology Biomarkers in Personalizing Hematology Treatment Plans

Conversations in Drug Development Trends

By: Simran Padam, Medical Director, Medical Affairs Personalized treatment approaches have emerged as pivotal in improving outcomes for hematological cancers. Hematological cancer cells can also develop resistance to therapies over time, reducing treatment effectiveness.

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A therapy candidate for fatal prion diseases turns off disease-causing gene

Broad Institute

By Greta Friar, Whitehead Institute June 27, 2024 Images of a mouse brain show the effect of a technology called CHARM in turning off the expression of a gene in the brain. Vallabh soon found out that she inherited the same disease-causing mutation in the prion protein gene. Credit: Neumann EN, Bertozzi TM, et al.

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Addressing increasingly resistant drugs by infectious agents

Drug Target Review

I had earlier proposed the use of Palmatine and Silver Nitrate in the efficacy against the RNA structure of the COVID-19 virus. 3 Sirtuins are a family of seven protein that play a role in aging by controlling cellular health (all activities in the cell) and function in the presence of NAD+.

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Five Promising Treatment Areas in Early-Phase Drug Development in 2024

Alta Sciences

Five Promising Treatment Areas in Early-Phase Drug Development in 2024 aasimakopoulos Wed, 04/17/2024 - 15:52 Early-phase drug development is an ever-changing landscape, as emerging science leads to new promising areas of research for the treatment of human health issues.

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Enhancing gene therapy with Circio

Drug Target Review

What are the key findings of Circio’s in vivo proof-of-concept for its circVec circular RNA platform technology compared to conventional mRNA-based expression with DNA vectors? Circular RNA (circRNA) has two major advantages versus mRNA in a vector-expression context. DNA vectors in mouse models?

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The Future of Drug Discovery: Tackling the Undruggable with New Biotechnologies

DrugBank

For example, PROTACs targeting STAT3, a protein crucial for tumor growth, have shown promise where conventional therapies have failed. Similarly, PROTACs can target and degrade overexpressed proteins, offering a way to overcome drug resistance, a common issue in cancer treatment.

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Biopharma Money on the Move: December 2 – 8

The Pharma Data

Li stated, “One in every six people in China is living with a CNS condition, yet there are relatively few effective treatments available today, underscoring the urgent need to develop and deliver novel, effective therapies. Laying down a new track for RNA processing, Remix launched with $81 million in financing. Pear Therapeutics.

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