Genomics

Here, we speak with two of the keynote speakers at this year’s Drug Discovery 2022, Molly Stevens, Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine at Imperial College London, and Rab Prinjha, VP Head of Immunology Research Unit at GlaxoSmithKline, about the insights they will be sharing and what they see as the drivers of the drug discovery […]

News round-up by DDW’s Reece Armstrong for 18 – 22 July Covid-19 vaccines remain effective six months after second dose  Two doses of Covid-19 vaccines were sufficient in providing protection against severe cases of the infectious disease, according to new research.   New combination therapy shows promise against lung cancers   Scientists have discovered a new combination […]

Droplet Genomics is a start-up company based in Vilnius, Lithuania, whose goal is to enable scientists to explore new facets of biology through its high-throughput analysis technology and innovation. Megan Thomas met CEO Juozas Nainys to find out why he likens its work to space discovery. Nainys had what he considers to be a standard […]

C2i Genomics, a cancer intelligence company, has launched its C2inform minimal residual disease (MRD) test across Europe after obtaining CE-IVD marking in the EU, UK and Switzerland.   The company also announced the completion of several clinical trials across the globe, including cancer centers in Europe, US and Singapore.   The new clinical data will be presented […]

At the end of last month, DDW’s Megan Thomas attended ELRIG’s Research & Innovation 2022: Innovations for Tomorrow’s Drug Discovery, at The King’s Centre in Oxford, UK. The four sessions addressed aspects of innovation across drug discovery and placed an emphasis on both the digital age and novel modalities: Omics technology innovations; The future of […]

Genome technology platform provider Jumpcode Genomics has launched technology to improve single cell transcriptional profiling and aid with scientists’ understanding of genomic sequences.   Jumpcode Genomics’ CRISPRclean Single Cell RNA Boost Kit leverages the company’s CRISPR-based technology to remove uninformative sequences from libraries, enhancing single cell experiments and enabling scientists to extract greater insights from genomic […]

Listen to this article on the DDW Podcast: Lu Rahman asks Laura Hinton, Operations Director at Gentronix, to offer some insight into the contract research organisation (CRO) market and how Gentronix is making its presence known in this sector.  Gentronix is a specialist contract research organisation (CRO) based in the UK, focused on delivering predictive toxicology products and services to global chemical sectors. Gentronix offers a portfolio of […]

This is the latest episode of the free DDW podcast, “What can we learn from the genome?”. It covers two narrated articles written for Volume 22, Issue 3 – Summer 2021 of DDW and read aloud by Megan Thomas.   The articles are called “Reproducibility in single cell genomic analysis” and “The road to global pharmacogenomics”.   […]

Listen to this article on the DDW Podcast: Rosie Bryan & Carlos le Sage, Horizon Discovery, explain how CRISPR-Cas9 technology has become a gold standard for functional genomics.  While efforts in the cancer genomics field have uncovered the mutational landscapes in tumours covering many types of cancer, the functional contribution of the mutated genes to cancer onset and […]

Listen to this article on the DDW Podcast: Lassi Paavolainen, Principal Investigator at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), Vilja Pietiäinen, Adjunct Professor in Cell and Molecular Biology, and Amanda Jones, Life Science Research Strategy Leader at PerkinElmer explain how functional precision medicine using ex vivo drug testing and HCS on patient-derived 3D cancer cell cultures shows […]