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Modernizing cell culture processes for the next wave of genomic medicine

Pharmaceutical Technology

The field of genomic medicine has reached a true turning point. The established method for this process is a triple transfection using three different DNA plasmids. More efficient, suspension-based cell culture processes are urgently needed in the now fast-developing genomic medicine space. Biores Open Access.

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

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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.

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The Utility of Liquid Biopsy in Oncology Clinical Trials

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Liquid biopsy tests in oncology involve isolating entities such as circulating tumor cells (CTC), circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and tumor-derived exosomes. These tumor-derived entities are used to derive genomic and proteomic data. The cfDNA that originates from tumors is called circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA).

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IWD: Spotlight on women in life sciences

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DI: Oncology is a hugely exciting area at the moment, particularly the further focus on genome testing to help identify specific mutations in the DNA and select the best treatment option for the patient and their type of cancer. A videh Nazeri.

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Black History Month: Recognizing the Revolutionary Contributions of Black Individuals in Science

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It wasn’t until the early 1970s when large numbers of other cell lines were found to be contaminated with HeLa in some labs that an investigation was launched. However, when a strain of HeLa cells was sequenced and researchers published its genome in 2013, Skloot informed the Lacks family about this.