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Rare autoantibody diseases: an innovative targeted pathway

Drug Target Review

Approximately three percent of the global population — 240 million people — experience autoantibody diseases, which occur when one’s own body attacks critical organs and tissues. This can create an abnormal immune response that attacks the cells of our bodies and contributes to the development of autoantibody diseases.

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Ebola virus disease – Guinea

The Pharma Data

On 14 February 2021, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Guinea informed WHO of a cluster of Ebola Virus. Source link.

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2021 Young Scientist Award winners announced

The Pharma Data

For their remarkable scientific contributions, doctoral student Julia Klaus, Zurich University VetSuisse Faculty, and Dr Yasmin Parr from the MRC-University of Glasgow, Centre for Virus Research, have received the 2021 ABCD Young Scientist Award. To foster young talent development in the feline health research community.

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Eclectic Genomics: Cat Flu, Dolphin Adaptation to Climate Change, Predicting Cancer, and Diagnosing Rare Disease

PLOS: DNA Science

That information led, thanks to vaccine shelved from the first SARS circa 2003, to the rapid development and deployment of mRNA vaccines against the new infectious disease. The owners of the felines all reported feeding their pets raw meat, and samples of the meat revealed not only flu virus genetic material, but also infectious virus.

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Health Highlights: Jan. 14, 2021

The Pharma Data

The new variant has three previously unseen mutations that “are likely to make the virus more infectious, making it easier for the virus to pass from person to person,” according to a university news release, CBS News reported. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. © 2021 HealthDay.

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Can Global Genomic Surveillance Forecast the Next Pandemic?

PLOS: DNA Science

These factors are converging to enable both identification of novel infectious diseases as well as microbial resistance, before these threats can impact public health, write a team from the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Frontiers in Science. COVID clearly caught us off guard.

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Improved prime editing system makes gene-sized edits in human cells at therapeutic levels

Broad Institute

The advance, from the lab of Broad core institute member David Liu , could one day help researchers develop a single gene therapy for diseases such as cystic fibrosis that are caused by one of hundreds or thousands of different mutations in a gene.

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