pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 12, 2022

David Del Bourgo (CEO and co-founder, Whitelab Genomics) has always been passionate about introducing disruptive, innovative technologies to markets. We founded Whitelab Genomics after realising the potential to use data, data science, and AI in a more systematic way to develop genomic therapies,” Del Bourgo says.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 30, 2022

Analysing almost eight thousand tumours across 33 different cancers, researchers say this marks the first time that a framework was created to understand the role of internal factors in driving such genomic alterations. Genomic research have greatly expanded our understanding of disease pathophysiology over the years.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 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 Immuno-oncology in Pharmaceuticals: Gene therapy delivery using viral vectors. Sanofi is one of the leading patent filers working with viral vectors.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

You have just received the results from your whole genome sequencing test, offered through your public health provider, and discovered that you have a 75% chance of developing a rare form of cancer. It is the year 2030. With the personalised medicine market reaching $93bn by 2030, there will be a range of treatments available.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 29, 2021

Genome editing is an exciting but still nascent field, and companies in the area face as many obstacles as they do opportunities. Maybe in 50 years’ time we’ll be using gene editing to lower cholesterol, but it won’t replace statins in anyone but those with life threatening mutations for a long time”. Zinc fingers.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Alongside drugs and therapeutics, data collection and technology enhancements have redefined the traditional healthcare experience, especially within oncology, and genomic profiling has become a significant factor in allowing for personalised care. Tailored oncology. In other words, every person’s cancer has its own genetic construct.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 2, 2023

A team of gene therapists, oncologists, genetic sequencing experts and neurosurgeons affiliated with a host of institutions in the U.S. and one in Sweden has uncovered gene variants that appear to be responsible for passing on familial glioma from parent to offspring.

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STAT News

AUGUST 17, 2022

When the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History opened its genomics exhibit in 2013, the field was just celebrating the 10th anniversary of the completed Human Genome Project. Sequencing that first genome cost over $500 million. The genomes since cost $10,000. The development of CRISPR-Cas9 landed a Nobel Prize.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

A group representing pharma companies selling precision therapies for cancer has called for a change to the way genomic testing is done in Scotland, to make sure patients get access to targeted drugs. The post Genomic testing ‘should be offered to all cancer patients in Scotland’ appeared first on. Why not lead?”

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Scientists have discovered the cause of a rare condition within a part of the genome that has been largely unexplored in medical genetics.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Dana-Farber investigators found that normally defunct viral genes that lie dormant in the human genome can be activated in the most common form of kidney cancer (clear cell renal cell carcinoma) and can end up triggering an immune response against the cancer.

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STAT News

MARCH 3, 2023

Next week, hundreds of scientists from around the world will convene in London for an international summit on genome editing. That technology, which enables scientists to easily excise, alter, or replace specific sections of DNA, was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Researchers from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have uncovered new genes and genetic changes associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the largest autism whole genome sequencing analysis to date, providing better understanding into the 'genomic architecture' that underlies this disorder.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Several biotech companies and researchers are now exploring medical devices and gene therapies to address not just common forms of epilepsy, but also rare conditions such as Dravet Syndrome. Meanwhile, others are researching the link between gene variation and different responses to treatments.

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STAT News

MARCH 6, 2023

LONDON — The first gene-edited children were born in China five years ago , but it’s unlikely to happen again there anytime soon. That was the message Chinese scientists delivered Monday on the opening day of the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing in London.

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Drug Discovery Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In the field of life sciences, Lithuania is best known for the discovery of gene scissors by Prof. The country now hosts the EMBL Partnership Institute for Genome Editing Technologies at the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center aiming to advance gene editing technologies. Virginijus Šikšnys. One of them is the Jones!Lab,

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 12, 2023

FoundationOne CDx is a sequencing-based in vitro diagnostic device that can identify alterations in 324 genes from tumour samples. The ROS1 gene is altered in approximately in 1-2% of lung cancer patients. Exposure to environmental factors can cause gene fusion which leads to upregulation of the ROS-1 enzyme.

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STAT News

APRIL 17, 2023

But with the advent of genetic engineering, genes encoding favorable traits in one species (say, that hornless cow) could be spliced into the genomes of other animals. For millennia, farmers and ranchers had to encourage desirable traits by selective breeding, a notoriously painstaking and imprecise technique. Read the rest…

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

For more information on tackling this “genomic analysis bottleneck,” watch this on-demand webinar. How many genes need to be scanned in order to determine the presence of a genetic disease? It also slows the progress of identifying new disease gene associations in very rare conditions.

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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. The company’s nuclease collection includes several Protospacer Adjacent Motifs (PAMs), short sequences that help determine the genome’s DNA segments.

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STAT News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Moderna is aiming to build a gene editing franchise powered by some of the same technologies used in its COVID-19 vaccines. Life Edit is the North Carolina subsidiary of ElevateBio, a cell and gene therapy manufacturing firm in Waltham. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Scienmag

JANUARY 19, 2021

publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 19, 2021–Gene editing therapies, including CRISPR-Cas systems, offer the potential to correct mutations causing inherited retinal degenerations, a leading cause of blindness. Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.,

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 4, 2023

Prostate cancer tumors harboring BRCA1/2 mutations are exceptionally sensitive to PARP inhibitors, while genomic alterations in other DNA damage response (DDR) genes are less responsive.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 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: Gene splicing using nucleases. They are engineered to cut specific genomic targets in order to modify the expression of single genes and proteins.

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Scienmag

AUGUST 21, 2020

An international team of scientists used genomic analysis to compare the main cellular receptor for the virus in humans — angiotensin converting […].

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BioPharma Reporter

APRIL 6, 2022

The FDA has released two draft guidance documents: for human gene therapy products incorporating human genome editing, and for CAR T cell products.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Credit: Photo: IPK Leibniz Institute/ Andreas Bähring In order to record all genetic information of an individual, its genome must be completely decoded. IPK scientists and international partners for barley already succeeded in doing this three years ago (Mascher et al.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Monitor and assess gene editing and CAR-T cell therapies for advancements in immunotherapy. Detect the integration of a CAR-encoding nucleic acid into the TRAC locus with a patented method and kit.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 16, 2023

Benefiting from Abu Dhabi’s improved genomics capabilities, the deal seeks to expand research into genomic medicine and genetic diseases to provide patients in the UAE and beyond with improved access to new tools and treatments.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 14, 2023

All that DNA is organised into hereditary units called genes, with humans having about 25,000 genes collectively known as the genome. The Human Genome Project Launched in October 1990, The Human Genome Project sought to sequence the entire human genome using a method called Sanger sequencing.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

It is expected to expedite the development of a wide range of new therapeutics using the small non-coding area of the genome that is not explored. The company discovered mutations in small RNA genes that are connected to microvascular dysfunction in a previous study.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 11, 2023

Genomic studies of cancer patients have revealed thousands of mutations linked to tumor development. However, for the vast majority of those mutations, researchers are unsure of how they contribute to cancer because there's no easy way to study them in animal models.

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NPR Health - Shots

MARCH 8, 2023

The Third International Summit on Genome Editing concluded Monday with ethicists warning scientists to slow down efforts to use gene-editing to enhance the health of embryos. Image credit: Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

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Scienmag

MAY 31, 2021

By including multi-ethnic participants, a largescale genetic study has identified more regions of the genome linked to type 2 diabetes-related traits than if the research had been conducted in Europeans alone.

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XTalks

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has placed a clinical hold on BioMarin Pharmaceutical’s investigational gene therapy BMN 307 for the rare inherited disease phenylketonuria (PKU) over safety concerns found during preclinical testing. The mice developed the tumors one year after being given BMN 307.

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BioPharma Reporter

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

PerkinElmerâs Sirion Biotech business is teaming up with the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CGR) to jointly develop new generation adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors for type 1 and type 2 diabetes gene therapy in the pancreas.

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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. Nucleome’s platform adds 3D genomic information to a wealth of available genomic data, uncovering a new dimension of information that is disease as well as cell type-specific.

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