OTS President’s Pick Paper – July 2022
By: David Corey Establishing an environment in which rigorous scientific inquiry is practiced: A personal journey. Stanley Crooke Nucleic Acids Research, gkac526, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac526 Published: 08 July 2022. https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkac526/6633881?login=true The Story of Ionis Pharmaceuticals For those new to the field, Ionis Pharmaceuticals has always been ...
OTS President’s Paper Pick – June 2022
Successful nucleic acid therapeutic projects have one thing in common - rigor. Lack of controls has many consequences ranging from failed companies, seminars that waste the time of all involved, and lost hopes of patients. In this “President’s Pick”, Past President Annemieke Aartsma-Rus lays ...
President’s Pick of Presentations from the Annual OTS Meeting
By: Annemieke Aartsma-Rus, Ph.D. The second virtual annual meeting of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society (OTS) took place September 26-29 on a computer or laptop near you. Despite the challenges the pandemic poses on research and development in general, the oligonucleotide therapy field has made ...
OTS President’s Paper Pick – August 2021
By: Annemieke Aartsma-Rus, Ph.D. The paper information: CRISPR-Cas9 In Vivo Gene Editing for Transthyretin Amyloidosis Julian D Gillmore, Ed Gane, Jorg Taube, Justin Kao, Marianna Fontana, Michael L Maitland, Jessica Seitzer, Daniel O’Connell, Kathryn R Walsh, Kristy Wood, Jonathan Phillips, Yuanxin Xu, Adam Amaral, Adam ...
OTS President’s Paper Pick– July 2021
By: Annemieke Aartsma-Rus, Ph.D. Safety, Immunogenicity, and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 Covid-19 Vaccine in Adolescents. Frenck et al. N Engl J Med. 2021 May 27; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2107456 While waiting in line to receive my second Moderna Covid-19 mRNA vaccine, I read the recent paper on ...