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The history – and the future – of antibody discovery technologies

DrugBaron

They can exploit their exquisite specificity to carry toxic payloads to specific locations, they can mimic the binding of natural ligands to act as agonists and they can even be engineered into bispecific (or multispecific) formats to hit several targets at once. The fourth milestone in antibody discovery is just beginning to unfold.

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Gamma delta T cells: a rising star in cancer therapy

Drug Target Review

These include engineering the cells to express cytokines that promote their maturation and/or differentiation, and engineering drug-resistant γδ T cells that can be combined with chemotherapies, which stress cancer cells but would otherwise also deplete the T-cell population. Trends Immunol 39(6):446-459 (2018).

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Advancing CAR-T therapy: how CD5 modulation is shaping cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

By simultaneously deleting CD5 and expressing a CD5-targeting CAR into engineered patient T cells, VIPER-101 offers a novel approach for treating T-cell lymphoma. Can you explain the key features and benefits of the Senza5 platform developed by Vittoria Biotherapeutics?

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AstraZeneca unveils The Discovery Centre (DISC) in Cambridge

The Pharma Data

State-of-the-art R&D facility designed to foster collaboration across world-class science ecosystem Sustainable environmental engineering aligned to Company’s zero carbon future. This enhancement moves AstraZeneca well above the current assiduity average success rate of 14 in the 2018-2020 timeframe.4.

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The Promise of Gas Vesicles

Codon

When these engineered cells are then placed into a mouse, one can use ultrasound to “hear” the cells as they move around. One can even explode the gas vesicles using high pressure soundwaves, akin to molecular warheads, with astounding implications for medicine. coli cell that had been engineered to express gas vesicles.

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The role of anti-viral drug development in a new pandemic era

Drug Target Review

Advances in molecular biology have led to highly safe, efficient, and effective platforms, such as mRNA, that can be rapidly re-purposed for different pathogens, multiple pathogens, or new strains of evolving pathogens. 2023 May 12; Available from: [link] National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Office USGA.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

Codon

Credit: Bruce Wetzel and Harry Schaefer, NCI, NIH | License Progress in biology is arguably moving faster today than at any point in the course of human history. Engineered biology has profound potential to change how we live, but the field has become broad, bloated, nebulous. Journal of Molecular Biology (1961).

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