Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A new study shows the isolation and sequencing of more than a century-old RNA molecules from a Tasmanian tiger specimen preserved at room temperature in a museum collection. This resulted in the reconstruction of skin and skeletal muscle transcriptomes from an extinct species for the first time.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Williams January 8, 2024 Credit: Susanna Hamilton, Broad Communications Researchers have developed virus-like particles that can deliver gene-editing cargo to cells, including those in the mouse brain. Researchers have used a variety of methods to deliver these molecular machines to cells, including lipid nanoparticles and viruses.

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Drug Target Review

JUNE 15, 2023

In this article Drug Target Review’s Izzy Wood spoke to Sam Hasson, Director of Target Biology at Rgenta Therapeutics, a biotech firm in Massachusetts, US, that aims to develop small molecule therapeutics to target RNA processing. The field is faced with a number of obstacles that require specifically assay technologies to surmount.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Researchers map communities of single cells in metastatic breast cancers By Corie Lok October 30, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Researchers map communities of single cells in metastatic breast cancers The team compared different single-cell and spatial profiling methods to explore the diversity of cells in metastatic breast cancer biopsies.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

AUGUST 14, 2023

A technique that enables scientists to record gene mutations and patterns of gene activity in individual cells has been extended to cover RNA splicing as well, in a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, the New York Genome Center and the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto.

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Drug Discovery Today

MAY 10, 2021

A new approach to tackling viruses by targeting the ‘control centre’ in viral RNA could lead to broad spectrum anti-viral drugs and provide a first line of defence against future pandemics, according to new research at the University of Birmingham.

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Drug Discovery Today

MAY 13, 2021

INDIANAPOLIS and LONDON — Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and MiNA Therapeutics Limited, a pioneer in RNA activation therapeutics, today announced a global research collaboration to develop novel drug candidates using MiNA’s proprietary small activating RNA (saRNA) technology platform.

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MAY 14, 2024

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. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology for his development of an efficient, scalable method of producing RNA and proteins in the laboratory.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

Machine learning guides researchers to new synthetic genetic switches By Tom Ulrich October 23, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Machine learning guides researchers to new synthetic genetic switches A new method allows precise activation or repression of genes in specific cells and tissues. By Sarah C.P.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

APRIL 22, 2024

billion, is the latest research collaboration involving small molecule drugs that modify RNA. The deal, which could be worth up to $1.8

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Crown Bioscience

JULY 15, 2024

In the world of RNA analysis, researchers have an array of technologies at their disposal. Each method comes with its unique strengths, making the choice dependent on specific research needs and constraints.

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Drug Target Review

JANUARY 24, 2024

Scientists from Northwestern Medicine have demonstrated that RNA interference could have a crucial role in the onset and development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). sRNAs Cellular functions rely on numerous protein-coding and noncoding RNAs and the RNA-binding proteins associated with them, which form ribonucleoprotein complexes (RNPs).

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Drugs.com

JANUARY 3, 2024

3, 2024 -- A regularly prescribed class of heart medications might be capable of treating one of the most common forms of muscular dystrophy, a new study in mice suggests.Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is caused by abnormal RNA. WEDNESDAY, Jan.

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Drug Target Review

JANUARY 2, 2024

In research published in Scientific Reports , 1 investigators focused on mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), known for their potential in treating cell defects and regulating immune responses. In the lab, they labelled RNA molecules with fluorescent markers, enabling them to easily locate them within individual cells.

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Covalent Modifiers

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

TD19 irreversibly modifies the residues C100 and C267, preventing ALKBH5 from binding to m6A-containing RNA. Moreover, TD19 displays good anticancer efficacy in acute myeloid leukemia and glioblastoma multiforme cell lines.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

161,979 new RNA viruses have been discovered using a machine learning tool that researchers believe will vastly improve the mapping of life on Earth and could aid in the identification of many millions more viruses yet to be characterized.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JUNE 8, 2023

Researchers report that two-spot octopuses adapt to seasonal temperature shifts by producing different neural proteins under warm versus cool conditions. The octopuses achieve this by editing their RNA, the messenger molecule between DNA and proteins.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 30, 2024

Researchers have uncovered a surprising genetic mechanism that influences the vibrant and complex patterns on butterfly wings. The team discovered that an RNA molecule, rather than a protein as previously thought, plays a pivotal role in determining the distribution of black pigment on butterfly wings.

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Broad Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Working toward a systematic method of optimizing mRNA drugs for specific uses, researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed an approach for tailoring mRNAs to produce a greater abundance of protein, or to produce protein for a longer period of time, compared to native mRNA.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JULY 27, 2023

In a step forward in the development of genetic medicines, researchers have developed a proof-of-concept model for delivering gene editing tools to treat blood disorders, allowing for the modification of diseased blood cells directly within the body.

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Broad Institute

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Manguso, who’d recently graduated from college and was conducting research at the University of Copenhagen as a Fulbright scholar, moved back to the Boston area to be with his mother as she underwent treatment. Omar Avila Monge puts samples — immune cells isolated from tumors treated with the PTPN2 inhibitor — into a centrifuge.

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PLOS: DNA Science

JUNE 8, 2023

But some species control genetic responses another way – via RNA editing. Because the edits are in RNA, and not DNA, they are fleeting. In 2015, the researchers discovered that about 60 percent of the mRNAs in the common squid Doryteuthis pealeii are edited. ’ ” Rosenthal posed.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

JUNE 11, 2023

Abu Dhabi, UAE (June 12): A team of researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi, led by Associate Professor of Biology Youssef Idaghdour and working in collaboration with clinicians at several Abu Dhabi hospitals, investigated the association between microRNAs, a class of small RNA molecules that regulate genes, and COVID-19 severity among 259 unvaccinated COVID-19 (..)

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 29, 2024

New research has determined the spatial structure of various processes of a novel gene-editing tool called 'prime editor.' Functional analysis based on these structures also revealed how a 'prime editor' could achieve reverse transcription, synthesizing DNA from RNA, without 'cutting' both strands of the double helix.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 16, 2024

RNA is thought to have sparked the origin of life by self-copying. Researchers have now revealed the atomic structure of an 'RNA copy machine' through cryo-EM. This breakthrough sheds light on a primordial RNA world and fuels advancements in RNA nanotechnology and medicine.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2023

By Allessandra DiCorato November 23, 2023 Credit: Jessica Hernandez, Broad Communications Related news Researchers uncover new CRISPR-like system in animals that can edit the human genome Microbial sequence databases contain a wealth of information about enzymes and other molecules that could be adapted for biotechnology.

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Broad Institute

APRIL 4, 2024

A Practical guide to bulk RNA-seq, including guidelines for eQTL analysis By Rose Circeo April 4, 2024 Breadcrumb Home A Practical guide to bulk RNA-seq, including guidelines for eQTL analysis The Primer on Medical and Population Genetics is a series of weekly lectures on genetics topics related to human populations and disease.

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JUNE 18, 2024

By Allessandra DiCorato June 18, 2024 Credit: Jon Arizti-Sanz SHINE, a rapid diagnostic test developed by Pardis Sabeti's lab in 2020, uses paper strips and CRISPR enzymes to identify specific sequences of viral RNA in samples. The researchers also adapted SHINE to distinguish between different flu strains.

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Broad Institute

MARCH 8, 2024

Little is known about what pathogens cause these infections, and so these “non-malarial febrile illnesses” (NMFI) often fly under the radar of infectious disease surveillance programs because researchers don’t know which pathogens to look for. Tags: Infectious Disease DNA sequencing RNA sequencing Nature Communications.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

JULY 27, 2023

Philadelphia, July 28, 2023—In a step forward in the development of genetic medicines, researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a proof-of-concept model for delivering gene editing tools to treat blood disorders, allowing for the modification of diseased (..)

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Chemical Biology and Drug Design

JUNE 11, 2024

Using RNA-seq and through in vitro and in vivo studies, we determined that brusatol suppresses hepatocellular carcinoma progression by inducing ATF3-mediated ferroptosis. Therefore, our research revealed the biological effect of brusatol treatment and provided ATF3 as a novel therapeutic target and prognostic biomarker for HCC therapy.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

By Leah Eisenstadt August 31, 2023 Credit: Susanna Hamilton, Broad Communications Researchers studied the effects of a schizophrenia gene mutation in different regions of the mouse brain. One of these is the GRIN2A gene, which encodes a subunit of a protein complex called the NMDA receptor.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

By Leah Eisenstadt October 21, 2024 Credit: Kevin Middleton, Broad Communications In the Bhattacharyya lab, researchers develop methods to quickly identify the most appropriate treatments for bacterial infections. The findings appear in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

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Fierce BioTech

JULY 1, 2024

Streamlining the Path from Discovery to Patient – Simpler RNA Manufacturing with Aldevron’s Codex® HiCap RNA Polymerase swheeler Mon, 07/01/2024 - 17:17 Wed, 08/07/2024 - 10:00 Resource Type Webinar Kyle Studey, M.S. Codex ® is a trademark of Codexis, Inc. Listing Image aldevron 250x190.png

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Reprocell

AUGUST 8, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of drug discovery, the ability to extract and analyze DNA and RNA from clinical biospecimens has become a cornerstone of innovative research. It is critical for downstream applications such as RT-PCR, RNA sequencing, and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS).

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Broad Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2023

typeof="foaf:Image" /> New tool uses RNA sequencing to chart rich maps of cellular and tissue function When a scientist wants to study individual cells at the molecular level within an organ like the heart or brain, they usually break the tissue up to analyze the cells. However, some beads capture the RNA of multiple cells at once. “So

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MARCH 22, 2024

Messenger RNAs with multiple “tails” could lead to more effective therapeutics By Corie Lok March 22, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Messenger RNAs with multiple “tails” could lead to more effective therapeutics Scientists have engineered long lasting mRNAs that increased therapeutic protein production in cells and animals.

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