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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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

GenScript ProBio has announced a strategic collaboration with RVAC Medicines to manufacture GMP-grade plasmid DNA (pDNA) for the latter’s RVM-V001, an mRNA Covid-19 vaccine candidate. GenScript ProBio CEO Dr Brian Min said: “We are delighted to enter into this strategic partnership with RVAC Medicines.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 24, 2023

Moderna has entered a strategic partnership with Generation Bio for the development of non-viral genetic medicines. Moderna’s biological and technical expertise will be combined with core technologies of the non-viral genetic medicine platform from Generation Bio.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 6, 2021

Pharma companies are always talking about moving ‘beyond the pill’, and Pfizer’s new brand identity embodies that – it’s decades old pill-like logo has been replaced with a DNA double helix that it says reflects its commitment to breakthrough science. Encoded within a successful emblem is a company’s DNA – its history, its future.

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Bio Pharma Dive

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The RNA drug developer is paying the richly-funded startup $80 million in a wide-ranging alliance that marks its first foray into DNA editing medicines.

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Scienmag

JANUARY 8, 2021

Dill/NIST In a technique known as DNA origami, researchers fold long strands of DNA over and over again to construct a variety of tiny 3D structures, including miniature biosensors and drug-delivery containers.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

30, 2021 — A new study led by University of California, Irvine researchers has confirmed a link between altered DNA repair and increased DNA damage associated with spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7), a debilitating, sometimes deadly neurodegenerative condition causing movement disorders. Irvine, Calif.,

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STAT News

JULY 29, 2022

Precision medicine — tailoring a treatment to an individual’s disease — requires understanding the individual’s biological characteristics. More than 80% of genomics studies have been conducted in people of European descent. Read the rest…

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Pharma Times

JULY 28, 2022

The British Heart Foundation’s ‘Big Beat Challenge’ grant of £30m for research into cardiovascular medicine was given to CureHeart

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BioSpace

MAY 23, 2021

Which career combines DNA technology and medicine? The answer to that question is medical genetics and the job titles involved around it. Some of the examples are clinical geneticists, genetics counselors and clinical laboratory geneticists.

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Scienmag

MARCH 22, 2021

Credit: WEHI, Australia Melbourne researchers have revealed how melanoma cells are flooded with DNA changes as this skin cancer progresses from early, treatable stages through to fatal end-stage disease.

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BioSpace

APRIL 29, 2024

The FDA has cleared a clinical trial of an ex vivo prime editing candidate in patients with a rare disease, Prime Medicine announced Monday. The technique taps CRISPR technology to rewrite defective genes without breaking DNA double helix strands.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 4, 2023

In a study of 17 people from five families, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they found that ultra-lengthy DNA endcaps called telomeres fail to provide the longevity presumed for such people.

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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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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Here he gives us a deeper look at how genomic medicine is evolving and the barriers that are preventing it from reaching its full potential. At that time, we thought this would be the holy grail for medicine. Now, however, the field is changing with respect to genomic medicine. This allows for much lengthier reads.

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Scienmag

MAY 16, 2022

Instead of relying on the cell’s repair mechanisms, the vaccinia virus MacGyvers a tool for DNA repair from one that it already uses to copy DNA, reports a team of researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in the Journal of Virology. Blocking that tool – an enzyme known as polymerase – at […].

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Error-prone DNA replication and repair may lead to mutations and cancer in individuals who inherit a mutant copy of the BRCA1 gene, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The discovery has potential implications for preventing the development of cancer in patients with these mutations.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 24, 2023

In the last three years alone, there have been over 633,000 patents filed and granted in the pharmaceutical industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Innovation in Pharmaceuticals: Recombinant viral vector-based medicinal preparations. However, not all innovations are equal and nor do they follow a constant upward trend.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Goodsell and RCSB PDB Darwin’s theory of evolution should be expanded to include consideration of a DNA stability “energy code” – so-called “molecular Darwinism” – to further account for the long-term survival of species’ characteristics on Earth, according to Rutgers […].

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In a study with lab-grown mouse cells, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have found that a protein that helps form a structural network under the surface of the cell’s “command center” — its nucleus — is key to ensuring that DNA inside it remains orderly. The new experiments distinguish the role of the protein, […].

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Led by the Department of Clinical Oncology, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), an international group of the world's top clinicians in managing nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) has recently published recommendations on measuring plasma EBV DNA in managing NPC in an acute setting of serious resource (..)

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Genomic medicine is a rapidly growing space in which researchers use the information in a person’s genes to identify and administer medical treatment.”. The evolving field of genomic medicine. There are two components to genomic medicine, known as the payload and the vector.

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JAMA Internal Medicine

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

This diagnostic study compares the specificity and sensitivity of comercial fecal immunochemical tests with a multitarget stool DNA test.

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BioSpace

AUGUST 18, 2021

The findings are a culmination of decades of genome DNA sequencing by Lyons and her team, which have resulted in a nearly 100% complete assembly of the cat genome.

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Scienmag

MARCH 1, 2021

Credit: Johan Wingborg In recent years, techniques have been developed to treat diseases with what are known as oligonucleotide drugs, based on short DNA or RNA molecules.

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Scienmag

JULY 6, 2021

New research shows that castration of male sheep delays aging of DNA compared to intact males Credit: Victoria Surgue Most of us are familiar with the fact that women live longer than men. But fellas, if we told you there was one thing that could be done to increase your lifespan, would you do it? […].

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

University of Saskatchewan (USask) College of Medicine graduate student Ananna Arna dedicated a research project to examine how genetics and DNA replication play a role in leukemia development. In 2022, an estimated 7,000 Canadians were diagnosed with leukemia, a term used to define cancer of the blood cells.

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Pharma Mirror

APRIL 21, 2024

With the rapid development of biotechnology and molecular medicine, the introduction of mRNA as a vaccine or therapeutic agent enables the production of almost any desired functional protein/peptide within the human body.

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Scienmag

JULY 12, 2021

USC researchers have achieved a better way to identify elusive DNA variants responsible for genetic changes affecting cell functions and diseases. Using computational biology tools, scientists at the university’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences studied “variable-number tandem repeats” (VNTR) in DNA.

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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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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

(Nov, 5, 2021) – Rutgers researchers studying COVID-19 have created a new way to deliver DNA molecules into skin cells, using a suction technique similar to the ancient healing practice of cupping. Nov, 5, 2021) – Rutgers researchers studying COVID-19 have created a new way to deliver DNA […].

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The ability to edit the genome by altering the DNA sequence inside a living cell is powerful for research and holds enormous promise for the treatment of diseases. However, existing genome editing technologies frequently result in unwanted mutations or can fail to introduce any changes at all.

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Drug Discovery World podcast

MARCH 26, 2025

In the first article, Rolf Turk, Senior Manager, Genomics Medicine at Integrated DNA Technologies, examines how CRISPR is being used to enhance cancer therapies. They are called: CRISPR breakthroughs: New solutions for common diseases and Re-assessing the risks of drug-induced arrhythmias during drug discovery .

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Scienmag

JUNE 16, 2022

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, are now presenting a groundbreaking microscopy technique that allows proteins, DNA and other tiny biological particles to be studied in their natural state in a completely new way. […].

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STAT News

JANUARY 16, 2023

But bits of tumor DNA adrift in a patient’s blood are an important bellwether for whether cancer will return — and, as a new study shows, can predict which treatments are likely to work. They’re far too small to be seen by even the most sophisticated medical imaging device.

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Scienmag

JULY 4, 2021

These Oncotarget results suggest that GBM might induce epigenetic alterations in tumor infiltrating CD4 T-cells Credit: Correspondence to – Mahua Dey – dey@neurosurgery.wisc.edu Oncotarget published “Genome wide DNA methylation landscape reveals glioblastoma’s influence on epigenetic changes in tumor infiltrating CD4+ T cells” (..)

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Scienmag

APRIL 1, 2021

Salk scientists reveal new insights into neurodegenerative disorders and potential for genetic therapies Credit: Salk Institute/Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center LA JOLLA–(April 1, 2021) Neurons lack the ability to replicate their DNA, so they’re constantly working to repair damage to their genome.

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