2019 DNA Immune Response 
PLOS: DNA Science
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Can they deliver healing genes without triggering an overactive immune response? The details are disturbingly reminiscent of the famous case of Jesse Gelsinger , who died from a ferocious immune response to experimental gene therapy in September 1999. million DNA bases. Affected children rarely live past infancy.
The Pharma Data
DECEMBER 23, 2020
” Dr. Stanley Plotkin , Professor Emeritus at The Wistar Institute, said, “INOVIO’s DNA vaccine appeared to be quite safe with few significant reactions but yet induced both antibody and T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2.” About INOVIO’s DNA Medicines Platform. mg and 2.0
PLOS: DNA Science
MAY 16, 2024
Many of the links below are to some of the 100+ DNA Science posts that I wrote during the pandemic. ” I’ve long thought that SARS-CoV-2, or an immediate viral predecessor, emerged years before 2019 – at least as far back as 2013. But I think about that time often, and the warning that it sounded.
Drug Target Review
OCTOBER 4, 2023
2 In response, DNA-damaging agents that could target the entire cell cycle received renewed attention as ADC payloads. More recently, researchers have begun to look at conjugating immunomodulatory agents to antibodies to directly activate an immune response against the tumour. Cancers 11 , 394 (2019). & Ohi, R.)
Codon
OCTOBER 27, 2024
million people with TB went undetected in 2019, but these estimates are uncertain due to inaccuracies in testing. In 2019, physicians were unable to tailor effective antibiotic regimens for 39 percent of new TB cases because the assessments they relied on could not gauge which antibiotics the strains would be susceptible to.
PLOS: DNA Science
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Last week DNA Science covered a setback in a clinical trial of a gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). It aims to correct the faulty instructions at the DNA level, straightforward, at least conceptually, because mutations are deletions, of part or all of the gene. That’s not the case for ALS.
Drug Target Review
APRIL 26, 2023
Gene-editing methods allow researchers to modify DNA, resulting in alterations in physical characteristics such as eye colour and susceptibility to diseases. To achieve this, scientists utilise various technologies that function similarly to scissors, precisely cutting the DNA at a particular location.
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