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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. 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.

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Scientists to rewrite DNA in search for heart disease cure

Pharma Times

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

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

STAT News

A Swedish scientist won the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology on Monday for his groundbreaking research into the evolutionary history of humankind. Pääbo unlocked scientists’ understanding of how genes from these extinct relatives have been passed down to present-day humans. Read the rest…

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The pangenome is making personalised medicine more equitable

Pharmaceutical Technology

Basic human traits such as eye and hair colour are determined by our DNA. metres of supercoiled DNA contained within its nucleus. If you were to uncoil all the DNA in your body into a single continuous strand it would be 54 trillion metres in length, enough to stretch from the Earth to the Sun and back 180 times.

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Long telomeres, the endcaps on DNA, not the fountain of youth once thought, and scientists may now know why

Medical Xpress

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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Combining ancient and modern medicine, scientists use cupping to deliver COVID-19 vaccine in lab tests

Scienmag

(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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General Design Methods for mRNA Drugs

Pharma Mirror

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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