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Advancing vaccine design: potential of peptide mimicry

Drug Target Review

1 The study reveals a novel bioinformatic approach and tool that holds the potential to empower researchers in designing vaccines capable of inducing a stronger immune response. By selecting specific segments of proteins that elicit robust immune reactions, these vaccines could offer enhanced protection against diseases.

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Not all neoantigens are created equal

Drug Target Review

These neoantigens are identified by T cells of the immune system as foreign proteins and thus trigger an immune response. Recent advances in bioinformatics show clonal neoantigens are the best targets for immunotherapy, as I will elucidate below. Neoantigens are recognised as non-self and trigger an immune response.

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The first major set of genetic associations found in long COVID

Drug Target Review

The genes unique to the severe long COVID patients were found to be associated with immune pathways such as myeloid differentiation, macrophage foam cells and lipid signalling pathways. She is a computational biologist with a background in bioprocess engineering and biotechnology.

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Scientists discover new antiviral defense system in bacteria

Broad Institute

It’s been very exciting to integrate genetics, bioinformatics, biochemistry, and structural biology approaches in one study to understand this fascinating molecular system.” In humans and plants, the STAND ATPase proteins fight infection by recognizing patterns in a pathogen itself or in the cell’s response to infection.

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Codon Digest: GPT-4 Controls a Robot

Codon

Codon Digest is my weekly roundup of research, news, and industry highlights about engineered biology. Skin microbes can trigger strong immune responses. In other words: Brush some engineered bacteria on the skin, and they activate the immune system to go fight a tumor. BMC Bioinformatics. McCafferty C.L.