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UK agency pilots biobank to study links between genetics and drug side effects

Pharmaceutical Technology

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) aims to launch a pilot genetic biobank that will gather patient data to associate drug-related adverse events to their genetic makeup. The Yellow Card biobank will launch as a joint venture with the UK-government funded entity Genomics England on June 1.

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Biorepositories as a Guiding Resource for Research & Drug Discovery

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The power of leveraging clinical data to decipher disease mechanisms and fuel drug discovery has rapidly grown in the era of genomics and personalized medicine. Biobanks are used for the coordination of high-yield patient sample collection. Partnerships and Establishing Research Cohorts.

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Alnylam identifies gene to lower abdominal fat and decrease cardiovascular risk

Pharmaceutical Technology

Using data from the UK Biobank database, genomic sequencing data for 360,000 individuals were obtained and the findings were confirmed in animal models that demonstrated a higher expression of the INHBE gene in obese monkeys when compared to more lean monkeys.

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

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Drug development has long been an issue for the pharma industry, due to the expense and the high failure rate of potential treatments. Ben Hargreaves finds that the vast amount of genetic data that exists today could help provide a faster, more targeted way of developing new drug candidates.

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Digitalising drug discovery

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The oceans of health data out there can be overwhelming for pharma companies to manage – but if extracted correctly, the prospect to develop drugs from scratch in as little as a year is very real, says Lifebit CEO, Dr Maria Chatzou Dunford. . on Big data: astronomical or genomical? , According to an article by Stephens, Zachary D.,

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Boehringer Ingelheim and Lifebit announce partnership to capture transformational value of health data

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to build a scalable data, analytics, and infrastructure platform This collaboration aims at capturing translational disease insights from large external healthcare biobanks and maximizing value of data for drug discovery and precision medicine. Boehringer Ingelheim partners with Lifebit Biotech, Ltd. More information at www.lifebit.ai.

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Help Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital Explore Atopic Dermatitis Care!

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