XTalks

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Expanding upon the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system, researchers at MIT have designed a new technique called PASTE gene editing that can cut out defective genes and replace them with new genes in a safer and more efficient way. The PASTE gene editing technique was recently published in Nature Biotechnology.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Rather, developers of diagnostic tests and, indeed of any product that relies on free access to gene sequence and other biomarker information, should pay also close attention, as PERA would overturn longstanding judicial precedent. By 2010, about 2000 isolated human genes had been patented in the U.S. Supporters of AMP v.

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Roots Analysis

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Since the introduction of a gene sequencing method by Frederick Sanger in 1977, the field of genomic data collection and analysis has evolved significantly. Advancement in DNA sequencing technologies have resulted in noteworthy developments in various healthcare-related research fields, such as diagnostics and personalized medicine.

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Marketing Gene Sequencing DNA Genome 52

pharmaphorum

AUGUST 10, 2021

The three-year project – led by respiratory medicine expert Dr Timothy Hinks from the Oxford University Respiratory Medicine Unit – will use whole-genome sequencing of around 500 patients with severe asthma, comparing their gene sequences with control subjects who don’t have asthma.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The two partners have revealed the first clinical data from a phase 2b trial of a personalised vaccine consisting of 34 mRNAs, each targeting mutations – identified by gene sequencing – that are thought to be driving a patient’s cancer. Access to sequencing could, however, be a major obstacle at the population level.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 5, 2023

However, its messenger RNA (mRNA) platform – building on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science – permits the development of therapeutics and vaccines for other infectious diseases, immune-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and auto-immune diseases as well.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Shares in Moderna were ticking upwards today after Merck & Co took up an option on a personalised RNA-based cancer vaccine with a payment of $250 million. The deal focuses on mRNA-4157 – also known as V940 – which targets up to 34 unique tumour-associated antigens or neoantigens that are expressed by a patient’s cancer cells.

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