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Oxford BioDynamics Plc (LON: OBD) is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of epigenetic biomarkers for use within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.
Introduction: Getting the basics right Oxford BioDynamics’ (OBD) EpiSwitch™ biomarker discovery platform combined with their newly enhanced detection technology gives the company valuable quantitative insights into chromosome conformations (DNA protein complexes) that regulate normal and disease
Oxford BioDynamics’ EpiSwitch™ technology is based on epigenetics, mechanisms that alter gene expression without altering the underlying DNA sequence and whose deregulation plays a role in the development of cancer, autoimmune, and neurologic diseases. Although DNA
The long-running study on aging and brain health at the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA) Alzheimer’s Disease Center has once again resulted in important new findings – highlighting a complex and under-recognized form
Today the Government has announced changes to guidance in England for people shielding from COVID-19. These changes will be introduced in two stages – from 6 July and 1 August. We know there has been concern
Mutations in the UBQLN2 gene, known to cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), promote the buildup of toxic waste in brain cells by preventing the normal function of two cellular degradation mechanisms, a study has found. In addition to its known role
Oxford BioDynamics Plc (LON:OBD), a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of epigenetic biomarkers, based on regulatory 3D genome architecture, using its liquid biopsy platform EpiSwitch™, has announced its interim results for the six month
The Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI) recently created a Rare Disease Diversity Coalition focused on reducing racial disparities in the rare disease community. Getting a timely and accurate diagnosis for a disease that few people — sometimes even
Oxford BioDynamics Plc (LON:OBD), a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of epigenetic biomarkers, based on regulatory 3D genome architecture, using its liquid biopsy platform EpiSwitchä, announced that Dr Peter Pack, Independent Non-Executive Director, has
The coronavirus is known with certainty that it emerged in China in November and has since spread to almost the entire world, where it has infected more than 5 million people and killed at least 356,000. Older adults are more
Oxford BioDynamics’ EpiSwitch technology has been chosen as the biomarker platform for prognostic and predictive profiling of COVID-19 patients in the GETAFIX clinical study.Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, and NHS Scotland are
The Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN) has opened an online survey to better understand how the COVID-19 outbreak is affecting people with rare diseases, their families, and caregivers. Survey questions cover a patient’s physical and mental health, supply of treatments, and
Oxford BioDynamics Plc (LON:OBD), a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of epigenetic biomarkers, based on regulatory 3D genome architecture, using its liquid biopsy platform EpiSwitch™, expects to announce its interim results for the half-year
ALS Awareness Month has been observed each May since 1992. But this year, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced supporters to rethink ways to raise funds and awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In previous years, May has been full of fundraising and educational activities
“I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound? Everybody look what’s going down.” That call for awareness comes from the song “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield. The song’s writer, Stephen Stills, penned the lyrics in
Within weeks following my ALS diagnosis, I faced my first ALS Awareness Month. At the time, I was still figuring out exactly what I had and how to pronounce amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Never mind trying to educate others about it. I hated
Oxford BioDynamics Plc (LON:OBD), a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of epigenetic biomarkers, based on regulatory 3D genome architecture, using its liquid biopsy platform EpiSwitch, has today announced its participation in the Chief Scientist
The purpose-built Oxford Biodynamics Array facility offers a complete sample processing service for Comparative Genome Hybridization (CGH) using the Agilent microarray platform. Agilent’s flexible SurePrint technology produces high-quality arrays of 60-mer oligonucleotides in a range of
INTRODUCTION • The EpiSwitch biomarker discovery platform detects systemic changes in the cellular genomic architecture using a microarray and PCR-based biomarker platform (Figure 1)1. It identifies and monitors chromosome conformation signatures (CCSs), key regulatory processes that
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