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Touching Base

Dried Blood COVID Dx, Cryo-Shocked Tumor Cell Delivery Vehicles, Verve Halts Trial, Iambic Starts Trial, and Diagonal Therapeutics Launches

Apr 5, 2024
31:54

Episode 16 (April 5, 2024): This week, the GEN editors discussed deep proteome profiling of home-sampled dried blood spots to assess the effects of SARS-CoV-2 in mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic, rapid liquid nitrogen treatment for converting tumor cells into carriers for gene editing tools that target cancer in vivo, Verve Therapeutics’ pausing of a clinical trial due to a serious adverse event, Iambic Therapeutics’ advancement of its first AI-designed candidate into the clinic, and the launch of Diagonal Therapeutics to find agonist antibodies for heteromeric receptor complexes.

 

Featuring Uduak Thomas (Senior Editor, GEN), Alex Philippidis (Senior Business Editor, GEN), Jonathan Grinstein, PhD, (Senior Editor, GEN), and moderated by Corinna Singleman, PhD, (Managing Editor, GEN and IPM)

 

Listed below are key references to the GEN stories, media, and other items discussed in this episode of Touching Base:

 

The State of Omics 2024 Registration

GEN Summit

 

COVID-19 Infections Detected in Dried Blood Spots via At-Home Proteomic Profiling

By GEN, April 2, 2024.

 

CRISPR-Cas9 Targets Lung Cancer Using Cryo-Shocked Tumor Cells

By GEN, March 31, 2024.

 

Iambic Rhythm: AI Drug Developer Enters the Clinic, Targeting HER2 Cancers

By Alex Philipidis, GEN, April 3, 2024.

 

Archimedes' Box: Diagonal Therapeutics Raises $128 Million to Discover Agonist Antibodies

By Jonathan D. Grinstein, PhD, GEN Edge, April 3, 2024.



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