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Unlocking the Future of Personalized Medicine: Blood vs. Buccal Swab in Pharmacogenomics Testing

Worldwide Clinical Trials

Pharmacogenomics (PGx), the study of how genes affect a person’s response to drugs, has brought significant changes to the clinical trial industry. At Worldwide, our recent study delved into the intricacies of PGx, comparing two common methods of DNA sample collection: buccal swabs and blood samples. for buccal swabs and 93.2%

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Nobel Prize in medicine awarded for research into the evolutionary history of humankind

STAT News

Svante Pääbo, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, accomplished something widely believed to be impossible: recovering and reading DNA from 40,000-year-old bones. Read the rest…

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Modernizing cell culture processes for the next wave of genomic medicine

Pharmaceutical Technology

With scientists fervently developing mRNA vaccines, nucleic acid therapeutics, and viral vector-based gene therapies, clinicians are set to have a growing number of tools available to treat a wide range of conditions, from infectious diseases to genetic disorders and more. So, we set out to solve some of the problems,” she explains.

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Risk Assessment for use of Engineered Genetic Materials in Clinical Research

Advarra

The use of engineered genetic materials in clinical trials is rapidly expanding, with potential applications for genetic vaccines, gene-modified cellular therapies, and gene therapies. Gene Delivery Systems Genetic material, in the form of DNA or RNA, does not easily enter cells without the aid of a delivery system.

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The Utility of Liquid Biopsy in Oncology Clinical Trials

XTalks

Liquid biopsy tests in oncology involve isolating entities such as circulating tumor cells (CTC), circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and tumor-derived exosomes. Such information can reveal details about tumor staging, tumor progression, heterogeneity, gene mutations and clonal evolution. Concentration of cfDNA and ctDNA in Cancer Patients.

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Cryomacs Freezing Bags – A Critical Component in the Successful Delivery of Biological Samples and Therapies

Roots Analysis

Owing to the ability to preserve a wide variety of elements for such a long period of time, including cells, tissues, blood and DNA, cryopreservation has emerged as a key focus area for stakeholders in the biopharmaceutical industry.

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101 Toxic Food Ingredients – New Conversion Breakthrough

The Pharma Data

every day are contaminated with at LEAST ONE TOXIC ingredient. food is “A food in which the gene from one species has been forced into the DNA of another species and the process itself creates all sorts of unpredicted side effects.”. These ingredients can be harmful and even LIFE THREATENING. A better definition of a G.M.O.