Research Solutions | October 12, 2020
Research Solutions/Reprints Desk (NASDAQ: RSSS), a pioneer in providing cloud-based workflow solutions for R&D driven organizations, today announced that it has partnered with BIO Business Solutions to help life sciences companies save time and money on scholarly literature access via its award-winning Article Galaxy research platform. Operated by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), BIO Business Solutions is the industry's largest cost savings purchasing program. More than 4,500 member companies worldwide—including biotechnology and biopharmaceutical firms, medical device firms, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers, and related organizations—together save more than $511 million annually through the BIO Business Solutions® program.
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Mogrify | January 11, 2021
Mogrify Limited (Mogrify®), a UK organization expecting to change the advancement of ex vivo cell therapies and pioneer the field of in vivo reconstructing treatments, and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), a top notch research lab committed to understanding significant natural cycles at the sub-atomic level, today reported an exploratory examination cooperation. The venture intends to create novel protein articulation frameworks by utilizing late advances in direct cell reconstructing to help improve the creation of proteins which are not delivered adequately well in existing articulation frameworks.
The MOGRIFY® technology will be applied to foresee mixes of record variables to incite trans-separation starting with one cell type then onto the next. The subsequent objective cell types could give analysts improved admittance to significant proteins found in human cell types that are hard to get and take into consideration more efficient protein production.
Mogrify will get admittance to any licensed innovation and skill created during the undertaking, further empowering the commercialization of the innovation in regions of remedial worth. This coordinated effort is a development of the Company's relationship with the MRC LMB and follows the declaration in December 2020 that it had made sure about a restrictive permit from the MRC LMB to an upgraded form of MOGRIFY technology empowering more precise record factor expectations and improved cell transformation viability. In the interest of the MRC, the clinical exploration noble cause LifeArc encouraged the restrictive permit of the new form of Mogrify's center reconstructing stage, and together arranged the legitimate structure to empower a fruitful cooperation between the MRC and Mogrify.
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Mission Bio | March 15, 2022
Mission Bio, the pioneer in high-throughput single-cell DNA and multi-omics analysis, announced new findings by Daniel Snellings from the lab of Douglas Marchuk, PhD, at Duke University School of Medicine using single-cell DNA sequencing to identify genetic mechanisms leading to the development of cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs). The study, published today in the journal Nature Cardiovascular Research, is the latest demonstration of how Mission Bio's Tapestri Platform is allowing researchers to probe new aspects of biology at a single-cell resolution not possible with bulk sequencing. Dr. Marchuk is Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Duke.
CCMs, a blood vessel abnormality that can lead to brain hemorrhages, have long been associated with developmental venous anomalies (DVAs), a typically benign but irregular vascular arrangement often found near sporadic CCMs – though researchers had yet to prove a link. In the paper, Snellings and colleagues sequenced DNA from three CCM patient samples to see if somatic mutations in MAP3K3 or PIK3CA – common in patients with CCMs – co-existed in the same cells. Single-cell DNA sequencing with Tapestri found co-occurring mutations in the cells of all three samples, a pattern that could not be determined by bulk sequencing. Further, the group found that the CCMs and the associated DVAs harbored identical mutations in PIK3CA, but that mutations in MAP3K3 were only found in the CCMs. Because of the pattern of PIK3CA and MAP3K3 co-occurrence in CCMs, the team could assess the temporal pattern of genetic mutations associated with disease progression. They determined that DVA is the first lesion to occur, and that CCM development happens only after acquisition of an activating MAP3K3 mutation in a cell of the existing DVA.sazsz
It was surprising to find that something as common as DVAs—which are present in up to 16% of people—could be caused by a cancer driver mutation. This explains why sporadic CCMs are often found in the vicinity of a DVA, and may explain why other diseases like pontine gliomas are also found near DVAs."
Snellings.
Tapestri is regularly deployed in cancer research to detect somatic mutations in clonal populations as a way of tracking tumor development, and the researchers adapted that methodology to evaluate the relationship between DVAs and CCMs. Since DVAs are not regularly biopsied, the researchers also confirmed the presence of circulating mRNAs in patients with both CCM and DVA related to this biological pathway, in plasma – a first step toward establishing a biomarker for CCM risk in patients with DVAs.
We expect this research will have a meaningful impact for patients at risk for developing spontaneous cerebral cavernous malformations, which can lead to strokes or even death, This paper is a powerful new demonstration that there are many disease areas where single-cell DNA sequencing is helping elucidate the mechanisms of disease development, and identifying potential targets for diagnostics or therapeutics."
Yan Zhang, PhD, CEO of Mission Bio.
About Mission Bio
Mission Bio is a life sciences company that accelerates discoveries and cures for a wide range of diseases by equipping researchers with the tools they need to better measure and predict our resistance and response to new therapies. Mission Bio's multi-omics approach improves time-to-market for new therapeutics, including innovative cell and gene therapies that provide new pathways to health. Founded in 2014, Mission Bio has secured investment from Novo Growth, Cota Capital, Agilent Technologies, Mayfield Fund, and others.
The company's Tapestri platform gives researchers around the globe the power to interrogate every molecule in a cell together, providing a comprehensive understanding of activity from a single sample. Tapestri is the only commercialized multi-omics platform capable of analyzing DNA and protein simultaneously from the same sample at single-cell resolution. The Tapestri Platform is being utilized by customers at leading research centers, pharmaceutical, and diagnostics companies worldwide to develop treatments and eventually cures for cancer.
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