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TOP STORIES Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Ultima Genomics Gives Away Sequencing for Free. Literally.

In what may be confused as an April Fool’s stunt (it’s not) Ultima Genomics launches the “count on us” initiative to provide three trillion DNA sequencing reads free of charge to researchers across the United States and Canada. + MORE

DeepMind Spinout Isomorphic Labs Raises $600M Toward AI Drug Design

Isomorphic Labs says it is advancing drug design programs across multiple therapeutic areas and drug modalities. These include oncology and immunology, the primary focuses of the company's internal programs. The company’s drug discovery portfolio also includes small molecule programs being developed with Eli Lilly and Novartis. + MORE

Avantor’s Jerry Keybl Discusses Trends in Biomanufacturing, Navigating Market Shifts

Avantor's senior vice president for biopharma products and strategy sat down with GEN to discuss its biggest growth areas, current trends in biologics manufacturing, and how it is navigating the evolving economic and political climate. + MORE

Novel Protein Degradation-Based Therapies

GEN spoke with representatives from four leading companies who highlight emerging basic and clinical research that drive renewed optimism. + MORE

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Researchers have identified O-GlcNAc transferase, an enzyme at the heart of many essential cellular functions, as a lead choreographer in the suppression of transposable elements and keeping gene expression running smoothly. + MORE

Complex Genetic Switches Aid Eukaryotic Production Systems

The researchers want to create programmed cell-free systems or artificial cells with functions that not only are similar to those of natural cells, but that surpass them. Riboswitches can be engineered to respond to user-defined ligands. + MORE

UPCOMING WEBINARS NGS Workflows for Expedited Development & Manufacturing of Therapeutic Antibodies

In TOMORROW's GEN webinar, scientists from Moderna and seqWell will present several applications of a fully scalable, one-step NGS library preparation workflow that span antibody development and biomanufacturing. + MORE

An Automated, High-Throughput Approach for Stability Testing in Protein, Cell, and Gene Therapeutics

In this GEN webinar, Dr. Karessa White will explore how the Aura platforms offer rapid screening to assess biological aggregation and extrinsic particulate contamination in protein, cell and gene therapeutics, from initial product selection to the manufacturing stage. + MORE

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