[2024/12/13] Gene and Cell Therapy- weekly digest from PackGene

Featured Dec 11 2024 Taiwan Healthcare+ Expo: Innovations in Five Key Industries read more » Dec 08 Beam shares results from seven patients who received gene-edited sickle cell therapy read more » Nov 14 Ribozyme-activated mRNA trans-ligation enables large gene...

Signal Peptide Harnesses Exosomes for Precise Drug Delivery

Drug discovery and novel disease treatments are major areas of research, with constant innovation. Delivering these drugs and treatments completely and precisely has been a major hurdle that researchers continue to grapple with. Now, a research team at the Ottawa...

Light-Induced Gene Therapy Disables Cancer Cells’ Mitochondria in Mice

Scientists literally are shining a light on cancer cells’ energy centers to damage these power sources and trigger widespread cancer cell death. In a new study “mLumiOpto Is a Mitochondrial-Targeted Gene Therapy for Treating Cancer” in Cancer Research, researchers...

A new class of antivirals could help prevent future pandemics

Biochemical and structural characterization of the NSP14–SAH–TDI-015051 inhibitory ternary complex. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08320-0 The arrival of Paxlovid in December 2021 marked another turning point in the COVID-19 pandemic—an effective...