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Not all neoantigens are created equal

Drug Target Review

During the process of transformation from a normal cell into a cancer cell, a cell acquires a series of changes, or mutations, in its DNA. But DNA mutations can also result in changes to the proteins that are displayed on the surface of the cancer cell. Neoantigens are recognised as non-self and trigger an immune response.

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Women in Stem with Dr Christine Schuberth-Wagner

Drug Target Review

Everything started in school with an experiment on isolating DNA from bananas. Making a little tangle of DNA visible to the eye and understanding that this is the basis of complex organisms, which might be altered in disease, was the defining moment for my future path in life sciences. in North America) in late 2017.

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Lineage Cell Therapeutics Provides End of Year Shareholder Letter

The Pharma Data

Following changes to our leadership team in late 2018 and early 2019, we have sought to transform Lineage into the preeminent allogeneic cell transplant company. Notably, we never modify the DNA of these cells, which avoids some of the safety concerns that have been reported with certain gene-editing technologies.

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National Cancer Research Month: Celebrating drug discovery innovation

Drug Discovery World

ICIs when given alone have occasionally shown poor efficacy in some indications, and in patient subpopulations with immune-excluded or immune-cold tumours. Combining multiple ICIs has shown improved efficacy, exemplified by the approval of Nivolumab plus Ipilimumab combination in MSI-high colorectal cancer in 2018.

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Tonix Pharmaceuticals Enrolls First Participant in the PRECISION Study, an Observational Study to Facilitate Development of Precision Medicine Techniques for COVID-19 Vaccines and Therapeutics

The Pharma Data

(Nasdaq: TNXP) (Tonix or the Company), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the first participant was enrolled in the observational PRECISION study (TNX-C002), to examine the immune responses to COVID-19 in healthy volunteers who have recovered from COVID-19 or were asymptomatic. 2018) PLoS One.

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Opdivo (nivolumab) Plus Yervoy (ipilimumab) for the Treatment of Mismatch Repair Deficient or Microsatellite Instability–High Metastatic Colorectal Cancer After Prior Chemotherapy

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in July 2018 for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients 12 years and older with MSI-H or dMMR mCRC that has progressed following treatment with fluoropyrimidine, oxaliplatin and irinotecan. To date, the Opdivo clinical development program has treated more than 35,000 patients.