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Cancer Research UK, University of Southampton and Touchlight Genetics Partner to Develop Head and Neck Cancer Vaccine

Drug Discovery Today

Cancer Research UK, the University of Southampton and Touchlight Genetics, a London based biotechnology company, today (Wednesday) announce a new clinical development partnership to progress a therapeutic DNA vaccine, TGL-100, into an early phase clinical trial targeting head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).

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Regulatory Guidance for Oligonucleotide Bioanalysis in Drug Development

Alta Sciences

Regulatory Considerations for Oligonucleotide Drug Development and Safety In 2024, the U.S. It also outlines recommendations for drug-drug interaction assessments during clinical development, such as the assessment of appropriate biomarkers that reflect modulation of the target protein.

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ViiV Healthcare Announces Analysis Showing no Antiretroviral Therapy Interruptions Due to COVID-19 Across its Clinical Development Programme for Investigational, Long-Acting Cabotegravir and Rilpivirine

The Pharma Data

and Shionogi Limited as shareholders, today announced the positive findings of a pooled analysis of COVID-19-related impacts across the investigational long-acting cabotegravir and rilpivirine clinical development programme.

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Unveiling neoantigen-directed cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

This exclusive interview with Dr Sharon Benzeno, Chief Commercial Officer, Immune Medicine at Adaptive Biotechnologies, unveils some ground-breaking research on T- cell therapy for cancer , which has seen the first TCR-based therapeutic candidate progress to clinical development, offering promising advancements in innovative cancer treatments.

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The science of ageing and restoring healthspan

Drug Target Review

Modifications to the epigenome, such as DNA hypermethylation, modify the expression of genes by increasing or decreasing their expression without altering the genes themselves. One way we are doing this at Life Biosciences is through partial epigenetic reprogramming. The epigenome drifts with age, leading to dysregulated gene expression.

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Navigating the challenges and opportunities of AI in drug development and personalised medicine

Drug Target Review

AI is being used to find the targets themselves, design the drugs to manipulate that biology, and thirdly, AI is being used to support validation of those targets and drugs as part of pre-clinical development. Cavlan explains that “they are brilliant at developing and bringing new drugs to market.”

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Women in Stem with Dr Christine Schuberth-Wagner

Drug Target Review

Everything started in school with an experiment on isolating DNA from bananas. Making a little tangle of DNA visible to the eye and understanding that this is the basis of complex organisms, which might be altered in disease, was the defining moment for my future path in life sciences.

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