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Transforming cancer treatment for greatest impact

Drug Target Review

Research 1 has shown that neutrophil elastase selectively and potently kills cancer cells irrespective of their genetics and anatomical origin, mobilises adaptive immunity, and avoids resistance mechanisms. Could you provide insights into the driving factors behind exploring novel treatments for cancer types?

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Involvement of extracellular vesicles in the proinflammatory response to clozapine: implications for clozapine-induced agranulocytosis [Toxicology]

ASPET

Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) may contribute to both innate and adaptive immune phases of IDRs, and changes in extracellular vesicle (EV) cargo have been detected post-exposure to several IDR-associated drugs.

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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. The article mentions that TLR4 antagonists have been identified as potential candidates for repurposing long COVID treatment.

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Can Global Genomic Surveillance Forecast the Next Pandemic?

PLOS: DNA Science

Other genomic databases were retooled for the huge datasets that COVID was generating, such as the Cloud Institute for Microbial Bioinformatics, begun in 2014 and rechristened the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium ( COG-UK ). • identifies parts of the virus to target to provoke an immune response from a vaccine.

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Defense-Forward Biosecurity

Codon

For example, many different filoviruses attack white blood cells and cause similar innate immune responses , which makes it difficult to identify a particular species from only their DNA. Putting a sequencer in every port, hospital, water treatment plant, or subway station isn’t feasible just yet due to the expense.

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Codon Digest: GPT-4 Controls a Robot

Codon

Skin microbes can trigger strong immune responses. These microbes were engineered to express tumor antigens that could “elicit T cells that were licensed by the commensal immune program but specific for a tumor,” including both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, according to the study. BMC Bioinformatics. McCafferty C.L.