It’s the middle of winter and, at some point during this season, many people will experience a constellation of symptoms that may include coughing, a sore throat, runny nose, headache, body aches, fevers, and fatigue. Most adults would assume they have a cold or the flu, but now, depending ...

When The Medicines Company licensed inclisiran, they envisioned a drug for the masses that would save the healthcare system money and be reasonably priced for patients. Despite the company having little experience in the oligonucleotide therapeutics field, it went all in on the drug, selling off its other products ...

Twenty years ago, a group of scientists intent on developing a new class of medicine using RNAi technology came together and formed Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, a name symbolizing their passion for discovery. The bright center star of Orion's belt, Alnilam, has long been used as a celestial navigator, guiding explorers ...

Ever since it was discovered that CRISPR could be used for genome editing, scientists across the world have been working on creating safe, effective ways to use this incredible tool to cure many different human diseases. From the first CRISPR-Cas system that works as genetic scissors to base editing ...

In 2020, there were an estimated 18.1 million cases of cancer worldwide (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer). Breast, lung, and colorectal cancer were the most common and together contributed to 35.4% of these cases. In the same year, 9.5 million cancer-related deaths were reported. According to the NIH, by 2040, it ...

Throughout the millennia, anyone who had anything beyond a simple illness could only do their best to ease the pain and petition whatever deities their culture believed in. Then, in the past few centuries, medicine and science have advanced to the point that many illnesses and diseases can be ...

In 2018, Susan Dillon and Karyn O'Neil knew they had created something special that could change the treatment of genetic diseases. Now, their company’s drug that uses their proprietary technology has been granted orphan drug status by the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The drug, ABX1100, is designed to ...

Footnote from title: modified slightly from “A brief history of oligonucleotide therapeutics” in the Timmerman Report, copyright 2022, and reprinted with permission. A Brief History of Oligonucleotide Therapeutics About 50 years ago, several scientists independently conceived of the idea of blocking gene expression with synthetic DNA or RNA “antisense” ...