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Can genetic data be a magic bullet for drug R&D?

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Pharma has used this to begin creating targeted treatments, such as gene therapies , which are able to hone in on gene mutations that cause health issues and eradicate or replace the faulty gene. As well as the drug candidate discovered alongside GSK, 23andMe has also developed its own investigational antibody, 23ME-00610.

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Evotec, Chinook Teams Up for CKD Therapy; HitGen & UPPTHERA in Drug Delivery Research; Artiva’s $120 M Coup of NK Cell Therapy; Junshi & AZ with Toripalimab in China

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Chinook will have access to the NURTuRE cohort study along with other proprietary patient biobanks and Evotec’s multi-omics integration platform, and the company plans to potentially deliver targeted therapies in rare kidney diseases such as IgA nephropathy and glomerular diseases.

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Research Roundup: Blood Test for Severe COVID-19 and More

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Doctors need better tools to evaluate the status of COVID-19 patients as early as possible because many of the treatments—such as monoclonal antibodies—are in short supply, and we know that some patients will get better without intensive treatments,” said co-senior author Andrew E. The research was published in the journal JCI Insight.