Genome editing

Cancer-killing combination therapies unveiled with new drug-screening tool

12 April 2019 | By Drug Target Review

Method IDs which target therapies, inadequately on their own, can be paired up to kill non-responsive cancers...

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...

Gene therapy to reduce deafness in mice

21 February 2019 | By Drug Target Review

Gene therapy has been used to restore hearing in an adult mouse model of DFNB9 deafness, one of the most frequent cases of congenital genetic deafness...

Taconic Biosciences

New Cas9 enzyme widens scope for CRISPR genome editing

2 November 2018 | By Drug Target Review

A team of researchers has discovered a Cas9 enzyme that can target almost half of the locations on the genome, significantly widening its potential application.

GFAP gene mutation creates tangles in brain cells – cause of neurological disease

26 October 2018 | By Drug Target Review

A recent study in the U.S. has identified how a mutation in the GFAP gene, which encodes for the GFAP protein, causes the tangles in brain cells associated with Alexander disease and may also impact other neurological diseases.

Critical cancer immunity genes identified using genetic barcoding

22 October 2018 | By Iqra Farooq (Drug Target Review)

Genetic barcoding using Pro-codes and CRISPR could be used to identify critical cancer immunity genes to aid future therapeutics...

Prenatal gene editing used in treating congenital disease before birth

9 October 2018 | By Drug Target Review

Researchers show the first example of a base-editing tool to treat a disease in utero in animal models...

Class of neurological disorders share 3D genome folding pattern

19 September 2018 | By Drug Target Review

Researchers have found another common thread linking nearly all of the TNR expansion diseases...

CRISPR used to deliver BChE into cells to protect from lethal cocaine doses

18 September 2018 | By Drug Target Review

Researchers have described a novel approach that was able to stifle the desire for cocaine and to protect against an overdose...

Application Note: Full-length, single-cell RNA-seq with the SMARTer™ ICELL8® Single-Cell System

6 September 2018 | By Takara Bio

The data presented in this application note demonstrates how SMARTer ICELL8 Single-Cell System can be used to generate high-quality RNA-seq libraries that provide full-length transcript sequence information from hundreds of single cells in parallel...

Expert view: Managing the complexity of finding new targets and drugging the undruggable

5 September 2018 | By Steven G Jarvis (Head of Pharma & Biotech Segment Strategy - MilliporeSigma)

Assessing targets that are unable – or rather, extremely difficult – to reach pharmacologically, has prevented researchers from achieving desired clinical successes, most notably in the realm of cancer research. However, many advances are being made to shedlight on these difficult yet desirable target areas.

Pushpanathan Muthuirulan

13 August 2018 | By

Research Associate, Harvard University

CRISPR-Cas9 used to correct sickle cell–causing mutation

7 August 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

Genome editing using the CRISPR-Cas9 system has tremendous promise for therapeutic correction of genetic errors in human cells...

PNA gene editing technique cures beta-thalassemia in utero

10 July 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

Researchers have for the first time used a gene editing technique to successfully cure a genetic condition in a mouse model...