Genetic therapy can heal damage caused by a heart attack
9 May 2019 | By Drug Target Review
Researchers from King's College London have found a method that can induce heart cells to regenerate after a heart attack.
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Squaring the circle – cancer vaccines
8 May 2019 | By Matthias Giese
By the 1890s William B. Coley had injected streptococcal organisms in patients with solid tumours (“Coley’s Toxins”) to activate the immune system. Coley (1862-1936) was an American bone surgeon and pioneer of cancer immunotherapy. He was convinced that post-surgical infections had helped patients to recover better from their cancer by…
Farther than fat: how lipids change research
8 May 2019 | By Dr Christian Klose -Head of Research & Development at Lipotype GmbH
Today we are beginning to realise that lipids have been inadequately represented in biological and medical research. For decades, studies in the fields of DNA and proteins have been pushed but despite these adverse conditions, lipid research has made pioneering discoveries over the course of the last seven years. These…
Circular RNAs can regulate PKR activation in innate immunity
2 May 2019 | By Drug Target Review
A recent study has discovered that covalently closed circular RNAs (circRNAs) preferentially bind to PKR which is related to innate immunity and act as PKR inhibitors.
Colon cancer proteins and gene analysis uncovers potential new treatments
1 May 2019 | By Drug Target Review
A new study analysing both the entire set of genes and all the proteins produced by colon cancer tissues has revealed a more comprehensive view of the tumour.
Scientists make improvements to AI pipeline used to diagnose genetic diseases
25 April 2019 | By Drug Target Review
Building on previous research, scientists have made improvements to an artificial intelligence pipeline used to diagnose genetic diseases via blood samples obtained from gravely ill infants.
New technique developed to expand multimodal single cell analysis
23 April 2019 | By Drug Target Review
A new technique, called ECCITE-seq, has been developed to allow researchers to perform high-throughput measurements of multiple modalities of information from single cells.
Scientists restore functions in pig’s brain hours after death
18 April 2019 | By Drug Target Review
Scientists have reported circulation and cellular activity being restored in a pig's brain four hours after its death, challenging long-held assumptions about the timing and irreversible nature of the cessation of some brain functions after death.
Realising the promise of laboratory automation in biomedical research
11 April 2019 | By Pushpanathan Muthuirulan - Harvard University Cambridge
Automation offers a choice of powerful ways to design and execute high-quality laboratory research. The use of lab automation is now pervasive in biomedical labs, offering versatile platforms on which to perform an ever‑expanding array of tasks free of human errors, and a unique means to address the problems associated…
New DNA ‘shredder’ technique goes beyond CRISPR’s scissors
9 April 2019 | By Drug Target Review
A new CRISPR-based tool that acts more like a shredder is able to wipe out long stretches of DNA in human cells with programmable targeting...
Scientists home in on microRNA processing for cancer therapies
27 March 2019 | By Drug Target Review
Research on the mda-7/IL-24 gene has shown that it helps to suppress a majority of cancer types, and now scientists are focusing on how the gene drives this process by influencing microRNAs...
CRISPR-Chip enables digital detection of DNA without amplification
26 March 2019 | By Drug Target Review
Researchers have found multiple applications for the CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspersed Short Palindromic Repeats) gene editing technology since it came into use by the scientific community...
Drug Target Review Issue 1 2019
14 March 2019 | By Drug Target Review
In this issue: AI-driven automated chemistry as a tool to accelerate drug discovery processes, the shifting landscape of immuno-oncology, and how lipid molecules provide an insight into biological research.
Salamander gene partnerships could help spinal cord regeneration
6 March 2019 | By Iqra Farooq (Drug Target Review)
Gene partnerships found in salamander could give insights into how spinal cord injuries and neurodegenerative conditions could be better treated...
Genomics to match treatments to pancreatic cancer patients
4 March 2019 | By Nic Losardo (Drug Target Review)
Genomics could be used to match drugs to patients better, with these genetic signatures also giving an earlier insight into detection of the condition...
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