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NGS is evolving: collaboration and tech lead the way

Drug Target Review

Their latest assay processes four to 24 libraries per batch and detects gene amplifications, fusions, deletions and other cancer biomarkers from both DNA and RNA inputs. Their latest assay processes four to 24 libraries per batch and detects gene amplifications, fusions, deletions and other cancer biomarkers from both DNA and RNA inputs.

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The biotech mapping thousands of hidden therapeutic clues

Drug Target Review

This allows the team to spot previously unannotated proteins and study them across multiple biological dimensions – from structure to function, from RNA expression to genetic association. He trained at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health.

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Alnylam Promotes Pushkal Garg to Chief R&D Officer

The Pharma Data

Pushkal Garg to Lead Unified Research and Development Organization, Signaling Strategic Expansion into Next Phase of RNAi Therapeutics Innovation Alnylam Pharmaceuticals , a global leader in RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, has announced the promotion of Pushkal Garg, M.D.,

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Leadership in the Age of Stacks

LifeSciVC

Before biotech, I was a practicing anesthesiologist, then a hospital administrator. I thought of the experience of running operating rooms overnight in smaller regional hospitals, what Hayes might call austere environments. One team might be working on a cell therapy, another on RNA, another on small molecules.

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In vivo CAR T: Faster, cheaper, and more effective cancer care

Drug Target Review

These and other complexities have limited access to CAR T cells to only a small fraction of oncology treatment sites, typically those at large academic teaching hospitals. Infrastructure requirements for treatment sites, such as apheresis beds and on-site staff for monitoring, drive high costs, while reimbursement rates are often low.

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Why brain cancer is often resistant to immunotherapy

Broad Institute

This study provides us with the data we need to create myeloid-targeting strategies to modulate these programs and make immunotherapies more effective for brain tumor patients, said Tyler Miller, co-first author on the study and a resident in clinical pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital when the study began.

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Scientists discover network of cells and genes involved in Crohn’s disease complication

Broad Institute

To better understand the biological processes at play in strictures, Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers analyzed individual cells from the intestinal tissue of Crohn’s disease patients, measuring gene activity and mapping the cells’ location in the tissue.