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Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies hold great promise for unravelling the mysteries of biological systems, with the advent of DNA sequencing methods having greatly accelerated biomedical research, gaining broad applicability in disease diagnosis and therapeutics in recent years...
18 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Anti-inflammatory drugs, like those used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis could in future be used to treat some cases of depression...
1 September 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
CRISPR/Cas9 is likely one of the most revolutionary tools in biotechnology, with tremendous implications for a broad range of biological and medical disciplines. As programmable scissors this technology allows cleavage of DNA at predefined sites in the genome of cells...
29 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Moderna and MSD will develop personalised cancer vaccines that utilise Moderna’s mRNA vaccine technology to encode a patient’s specific neoantigens...
Featured in this Omics In-depth Focus: The next revolution in stratified medicine-molecular phenotyping with metabolomics; Pharmacometabolomics as the key to personalised medicine...
Blanketed administration of drugs to all populations assumes that all patients respond similarly. Despite pharmaceutical companies’ efforts to develop drugs with large therapeutic windows, there are often and inevitably subpopulations of individuals who will either not respond to therapy or will respond with adverse effects...
31 March 2016 | By Victoria White
Children with cancer will be offered testing for genetic mutations in their tumours as part of an initiative to personalise children’s cancer treatment...
Microfluidic technology has great potential for complementing and, in some instances, replacing the use of animal models in the testing of medicines and in developing personalised treatments for cancer patients.
4 March 2016 | By Victoria White
Researchers have found the tools necessary to give immunotherapy the precision guidance that patients with cancer so desperately need...
3D printing (3DP) is attracting increasing interest as a new method of fabricating pharmaceutical products, especially with the recent United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the first three-dimensional (3D) printed tablet Spritam® (levetiracetam). 3DP is considered to be an additive manufacturing technique, because regardless of their principles of…
25 September 2015 | By Victoria White
The team of researchers will comprehensively study human proteomes with the aim of turning the vast amount of molecular information into designs for new reagents, equipment, workflows, assays and software...
21 September 2015 | By SomaLogic
The SOMAscan™ assay is a highly multiplexed, sensitive, quantitative and reproducible proteomic tool for discovering biomarkers for drug discovery...
26 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Siemens and BioNTech will work together on the construction of a fully automated and digitalised production site for BioNTech's personalised cancer vaccines...
11 June 2015 | By Victoria White
BioNTech has launched MammaTyper, a molecular diagnostic test for breast cancer, for universal use in pathology laboratories in Europe...
23 September 2014 | By Horizon Discovery
Horizon Discovery Group plc announces its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2014...
