| | | ASSOCIATION TO CAUSATION: USING GWAS TO IDENTIFY DRUGGABLE TARGETS | | Human genetics provides perhaps the single best opportunity to innovate and improve clinical success rates, through the identification of novel drug targets for complex disease. Even as correlation identifies multiple genetic variants associated with disease, it is challenging to conduct r... | | |
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| | | BASE EDITING: PUTTING PRECISION INTO GENOMIC MEDICINE | | Base editing is unquestionably one of the most exciting recent technology innovations in the field of genome editing. The development of these base editors in the lab of David Liu (Broad Institute/HHMI) enables the substitution of specific bases in DNA (C to T and A to G) without cleaving ... | | |
| | | UNLOCKING THE DRIVERS OF NEUROINFLAMMATION IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE | | Innate immune-mediated oxidative injury is a proposed driver of the neurodegeneration and demyelination characteristic of progressive neurodegenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease. However, little is known about the exact mechanisms that trigger this dang... | | |
| | | MICROBIOLOGY & IMMUNOLOGY 2020 | | Microbiology and Immunology cover an array of industries and disciplines, encompassing various research areas including pharmaceuticals, medicine, agriculture, and space. The development of new techniques and the ability to sequence organisms without the need to grow them in the laboratory... | | |
| | | CELL BIOLOGY 2020 | | Cell Biology 2020 Virtual Event will continue to create a valuable platform for inspiring global and interdisciplinary collaboration in a virtual environment, to study cells cells – their physiological properties, structure, the organelles they contain, environmental interactions, li... | | |