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May 20 marks International Clinical Trials Day, a date designed to highlight the importance of clinical research and the participation of patients and volunteers that contributes to saving lives, to economic and social development and to providing benefits to healthcare systems. From OLIGOFASTX we do not want to miss the opportunity to address the subject […]
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History of biotechnology, International Biotechnology Day 2024, Noticias
The experiment that helped crack the code of life
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Apr
Apr
In 1961, Marshall Nirenberg and Heinrich Matthaei discovered the genetic code of living beings, which confirms that the information contained in DNA is expressed in proteins according to a defined pattern. These researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) made one of the scientific milestones that changed our view of how life develops […]
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Apr
Apr
Today, the OLIGOFASTX team joins in the celebration of the European Patients’ Rights Day, a relatively recent initiative promoted by the Active Citizenship Network. In 2002, the European organization promulgated the Charter of Patients’ Rights, which sets out the fourteen rights that patients throughout Europe should have in all healthcare facilities. Known as Patients’ Rights […]
13
Apr
Apr
Rare diseases (affecting fewer than 1 in 2,000 people) are an emerging global public health priority. Given their high heterogeneity and the need to provide individualized medicine for small patient populations, they have become a challenge for healthcare systems and biopharmaceutical research. This post is about one of these diseases that affect young children from […]
International Biotechnology Day 2024, Noticias, Technology
Artificial Intelligence applied to the diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases
30
Mar
Mar
That Artificial Intelligence is coming to our daily lives is nothing new. We have all become accustomed to talking to chatbots on different websites, for example, which are based on Artificial Intelligence, which thanks to the most advanced algorithms, the feeding of large databases processed by Big Data and learning processes, are able to replace […]
History of biotechnology, Noticias
Tribute to Severo Ochoa, the Spanish biochemist who received the Nobel Prize for discovering the enzymes involved in RNA synthesis.
22
Mar
Mar
Of Spanish origin, the small and idyllic town of Luarca (Asturias) was the birthplace of one of the most influential and decisive figures in the history of biochemistry: Severo Ochoa de Albornoz. He was born on September 24, 1905, and died on November 1, 1993, but not before having traveled a crucial and key path […]
International Biotechnology Day 2024, Noticias
Tribute to Severo Ochoa, the Spanish biochemist who received the Nobel Prize for discovering the enzymes involved in RNA synthesis.
22
Mar
Mar
Of Spanish origin, the small and idyllic town of Luarca (Asturias) was the birthplace of one of the most influential and decisive figures in the history of biochemistry: Severo Ochoa de Albornoz. He was born on September 24, 1905, and died on November 1, 1993, but not before having traveled a crucial and key path […]
14
Mar
Mar
We love to share good news from the sector. On this occasion, we share the data recently published by farmaindustria that show not only the level of our scientific community in Spain, but also its international recognition. Specifically, in 2022 it reached 26,818 million euros in turnover, placing medicines as the third product with the […]
08
Mar
Mar
One more year, we celebrate #InternationalWomensDay: a day that not only commemorates and pays tribute to all those women who throughout history have contributed to the figure of women today being equal to that of men, but also serves as an impetus to continue fighting to reduce the differences in those areas or sectors in […]
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Feb
Feb
Oligofastx is a project born from a need: to offer a therapeutic pathway based on the development of specific oligonucleotides for certain rare diseases for which there is no solution at the moment. I feel this is our leit-motiv and sign of identity, we could not miss, of course, to join the celebration of Rare […]