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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.
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. I saw this, in particular, with the finishing of the human genome,” says Charlie. “At In reality, finishing the human genome was the first step of what is a long journey.”.
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…
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…
Earlier this month, scientists from Cambridge University and the Madrid-based National Cancer Research Center described a novel framework tracking chromosomal instability and copy number changes in particularly deadly cancers. Genomic research have greatly expanded our understanding of disease pathophysiology over the years.
The next COVID pandemic could be prevented by using a gene drive to preemptively edit the genome of bats to prevent them from becoming hosts for coronaviruses, according to a proposal by scientists from Israel’s Interdisciplinary Center Herzelia and the National Institutes of Health.
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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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have successfully identified differences in gene activity in the brains of people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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The p53 gene is one of the most important in the human genome: the only role of the p53 protein that this gene encodes is to sense when a tumor is forming and to kill it. While the gene was discovered more than four decades ago, researchers have so far been unsuccessful at determining exactly how it works.
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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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A large research project, led by scientists at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Weill Cornell Medical College, has found that whole genome sequencing (WGS) can provide much more information about classic Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) than exome sequencing, (..)
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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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University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have created an important new resource to provide a better look at how genes in specific cells contribute to the risk of coronary artery disease, a leading cause of death worldwide.
The alliance will leverage the CRISPR genome editing technologies of Scribe to facilitate in genetic modification of new natural killer (NK) cell therapeutics for cancer. Cell & Gene Therapy coverage on Pharmaceutical Technology is supported by Cytiva. According to the deal, Sanofi will make an upfront payment of $25m to Scribe.
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Researchers at Uppsala University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences have used new methods for DNA sequencing and annotation to build a new, and more complete, dog reference genome.
Geneticist Dr Charles Steward has spent his career studying the human genome – but his work became much more personal when his children were diagnosed with severe neurological diseases. Charlie told pharmaphorum how his search for a genetic cause has led him to straddle the divide between scientist and patient advocate.
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An international team of Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Irish scientists has used whole genome sequencing to characterise 53 herring populations from the Atlantic Ocean and the Baltic Sea. They have developed genetic markers that make it possible to better monitor herring populations and avoid overfishing.
The past twelve months have culminated in an unprecedented level of excitement, investment, and clinical progress within the gene therapy field. This year’s agenda includes a novel track designed for quality control and process development groups working in gene therapy. Download the full event guide to find out more.
Credit: UC Berkeley Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, a professor at UC Berkeley and faculty scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is co-winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the development of a method for genome editing.”
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