XTalks

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Developed by MIT researchers Jonathan Gootenberg and Omar Abudayyeh, PASTE (Programmable Addition via Site-specific Targeting Elements) gene editing technology can insert genes as long as 36,000 DNA base pairs to liver cells in mice as well as several types of human cells.

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BioPharma Reporter

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Illumina, a DNA sequencing and array-based technology specialist, is supporting the Belgian Society of Medical Oncology (BSMO) in a pilot study examining the use of comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) in 864 patients with advanced metastatic cancer.

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STAT News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A new CRISPR startup — backed by some big names in venture capital — is planning to develop gene-editing treatments that can insert a genetic sequence of any length, at any location in the DNA strand, according to industry insiders and documents.

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Scienmag

JULY 19, 2022

Scientists have found that non-coding ‘junk’ DNA, far from being harmless and inert, could potentially contribute to the development of cancer. Their study has shown how non-coding DNA can get in the way of the replication and repair of our genome, potentially allowing mutations to accumulate.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 12, 2023

Repotrectinib has been developed to combat cancer resistance to existing therapies and exert consistent anti-tumor activity. Individuals that develop lung cancer with no smoking history are genetically distinct from those who develop the cancer with a smoking history.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Credit: CSHL Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists developed the world’s first mobile genome sequence analyzer, a new iPhone app called iGenomics. By pairing an iPhone with a handheld DNA sequencer, users can create a mobile genetics laboratory, reminiscent of the “tricorder” featured in Star Trek.

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XTalks

APRIL 29, 2021

While ARV-based treatments work well to keep the virus suppressed and patients healthy — some for many years — resistance to one or more drugs in a treatment regimen can develop in some patients. HIV drug resistance occurs when virions develop mutations that make them less susceptible to given drugs. HIV Drug Resistance Testing.

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STAT News

OCTOBER 3, 2022

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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Scienmag

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Researchers at the University of Missouri, led by Praveen Rao, are developing a free, online resource that could help scientists accelerate their discoveries for various human diseases — such as sickle cell disease, cystic fibrosis, and even COVID-19 — by analyzing human genomes three times faster than currently available methods.

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Scienmag

JANUARY 12, 2022

Pacific time to coincide with the study’s publication in The New England Journal of Medicine Media contact: Hanae Armitage at (650) 725-5376 (harmitag@stanford.edu) Fastest DNA sequencing technique helps undiagnosed patients find answers in mere hours A new ultra-rapid genome sequencing approach developed by Stanford Medicine scientists and their collaborators (..)

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Within the emerging innovation stage, DNA chips, tissue culturing automation, and mass spectrometry analysis are disruptive technologies that are in the early stages of application and should be tracked closely. Codexis, a protein engineering company, is the leading patent filer.

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Scienmag

MAY 11, 2022

TORONTO – Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have found that repeated DNA sequences in the genome may contribute to an individual’s risk of developing schizophrenia.

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XTalks

AUGUST 29, 2022

CRISPR is notable for engineering living cells, allowing scientists to edit, turn off, delete, or replace genes in a cell’s genome. Viral vectors have traditionally been used in gene editing where the shells of viruses carry the template DNA into cells, but this method has its disadvantages.

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Roots Analysis

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Presently, there are several companies and universities, which are exploring the potential of different gene editing technologies beyond CRISPR for basic research, and the development of gene editing solutions. Genome Editing is a way of making changes in the DNA. Type of Genome Editing: Zinc-Finger Nuclease.

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Scienmag

JANUARY 27, 2021

Credit: John Wallace, VCU Massey Cancer Center Doctors are increasingly using genetic signatures to diagnose diseases and determine the best course of care, but using DNA sequencing and other techniques to detect genomic rearrangements remains costly or limited in capabilities.

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BioPharma Reporter

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The UK startup Broken String Biosciences has raised a $15 million Series A round to fund the development of a DNA sequencing platform that maps off-target DNA breaks resulting from genome editing technology.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) developed a novel technology which allows genomic DNA and RNA sequencing to be carried out simultaneously in single cells of both frozen and fresh tissues, and identified rare brain tumor cell "spies" disguised as normal cells with this method.

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STAT News

JULY 29, 2022

More than 80% of genomics studies have been conducted in people of European descent. If this imbalance is not fully addressed, a lack of diverse DNA sampling has the potential to hold back the pace of drug discovery and the development of, and more equitable access to, the promise of precision medicine.

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BioPharma Reporter

JANUARY 5, 2023

mRNA specialist Moderna will acquire OriCiro Genomics K.K, a pioneer in cell-free DNA synthesis and amplification technologies, for $85m.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 19, 2022

million ($40 million) first-round financing that will be used to explore so-called ‘dark’ regions of the human genome. M Ventures’ Dr Bauke Anninga said that that the startup has a “differentiated platform technology has the potential to fundamentally shift the way we discover and develop precision medicines.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 23, 2022

Mpro has become the main focus of intense research and treatment development as it is vital for viral replication. These smaller segments can subsequently fold and develop to create new virus particles. It functions as a molecular scissor by slicing long chains of virus’ polypeptide proteins into smaller component proteins.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Moderna has entered a strategic research and development partnership with ElevateBio’s Life Edit Therapeutics to discover and develop new in-vivo mRNA gene editing therapies. Moderna will also assume further development, manufacturing, and commercialisation responsibilities on exercising a target option.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 4, 2022

Unlocking the secrets of the human genome has long been an ambitious pursuit for researchers around the world. Today, the landscape of genomic testing and research is rapidly progressing, with significant scientific and technological advances driving a paradigm shift in the understanding of oncology at a molecular level.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 12, 2023

Twenty years ago, after the human genome was first sequenced, geneticists began conducting large genome-wide association studies to identify genomic regions linked to human disease. For more than a decade, scientists have studied these epigenetic modifications to test associations with disease.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 3, 2023

Blacksmith Medicines has signed a definitive merger agreement with Forge Therapeutics to create a combined entity that will discover and develop medicines targeting a large class of proteins called metalloenzymes. The merged entity will focus on developing medicines with an initial focus on oncology and infection.

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XTalks

MAY 23, 2024

One of the more intriguing developments in cancer research in recent years is the growing understanding of clonal hematopoiesis, a phenomenon where blood cells expand from a single clone due to genetic mutations. Clonal hematopoiesis increases in prevalence with age and can precede hematologic malignancies.

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XTalks

JANUARY 21, 2025

TriClip G4 System Manufacturer/developer : Abbott Medical Date of FDA approval : April 1, 2024 Approved for : Tricuspid regurgitation (TR). Abbott Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) Systems Manufacturer/developer : Abbott Medical Date of FDA approval : May 30, 2024 Approved for : Chronic, hard-to-manage pain in the torso, arms and legs.

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XTalks

MAY 10, 2022

On Saturday, researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have announced that they developed and launched a new bioinformatics software tool called CancerVar (cancer variant interpretation). Why Was CancerVar Developed? What is CancerVar? This software is implemented in Python and has a user-friendly web server.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Life sciences venture capital firm Flagship Pioneering has unveiled Empress Therapeutics, a small molecule drug development startup. This will support development of its proprietary Chemilogics platform and drug discovery pipeline. The Moderna -backed venture fund has launched Empress with a $50m investment.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 31, 2021

NASDAQ: ILMN), the global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, and Sequoia Capital China , a leading investment firm, today announced a collaboration to catalyze the startup ecosystem in China with the launch of the Sequoia Capital China Intelligent Healthcare Genomics Incubator, Powered by Illumina.

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Roots Analysis

AUGUST 28, 2022

As a result, industry and non-industry stakeholders, are on the lookout for advanced platforms that can simultaneously capture the arrangement of multiple biomolecules (DNA, RNA, proteins and others) with single-cell or subcellular resolution. 70+ spatial Genomics solutions are developed by industry and non-industry players.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Gene therapy uses DNA to manipulate cells and correct defective genes, whereas cell therapy is the infusion or transplantation of cells into a patient. New doors were opened in the 2000s with the development of genome editing, such as CRISPR-Cas9, which introduces molecular tools to change existing DNA.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The AVENIO Tumor Tissue Comprehensive Genomic Profiling (CGP) Kit is the first jointly-developed product that brings together the expertise and reach of Roche with Foundation Medicine’s pioneering leadership in genomic science. Cancer is a disease of the genome and treatment no longer depends solely on the tissue of origin.

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BioTech 365

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: The world’s first DNA ‘tricorder’ in your pocket.Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists developed the world’s first mobile genome sequence analyzer, a new iPhone app called iGenomics.

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BioTech 365

JUNE 30, 2021

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: Astronauts demonstrate CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in space.Researchers have developed and successfully demonstrated a novel method for studying how cells repair damaged DNA in space.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Genome Med 12, 89 (2020). doi:10.1186/s13073-020-00788-5… SINGAPORE, 3 Nov 2020 – Long RNA molecules carrying DNA codes that […]. Singapore scientists uncover potential role of long non-coding RNAs in pancreatic cancer Credit: From Figure 4 in Liu, S., Harmston, N., Glaser, T.L.

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BioTech 365

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “DNA Sequencing – Technologies, Markets & Companies” report from Jain PharmaBiotech has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. This report briefly reviews basics of human genome variations, development of sequencing technologies, and their applications.

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