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Where is the Ignite Theater tech leading us?

Drug Discovery World

For the patient as well as for doctors, this means creating more time to make decisions, as the company believes: “Patients – and their quality of life – shouldn’t have to wait for a broken system to provide an answer six months too late.

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Can a heartburn drug help doctors treat COVID-19?

The Pharma Data

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors in Wuhan noticed something surprising. Many of the elderly patients who survived the virus were poor: not exactly the demographic you would expect to fare well in a health crisis. The next challenge was to figure out why.

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Is Recent Gene Therapy Setback for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Déjà vu All Over Again?

PLOS: DNA Science

In the final chapter of my 2012 book The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It , I predicted that the technology would soon expand well beyond the rare disease world. Gene therapy clearly hasn’t had a major impact on health care, offering extremely expensive treatments for a few individuals with rare diseases.

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Women in STEM with Delphine Guyon-Gellin

Drug Target Review

Last summer, we published a first signal of efficacy in humans in the LANCET Infectious Diseases for our lead broad-spectrum influenza candidate, OVX836. She holds a Doctorate from the Ecole Vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort and a Master’s degree in Marketing from the HEC Paris.

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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. Recognition of bacteria, viruses and fungal invaders as ‘foreign’ makes sense, but how does the immune system recognise cancer cells as a threat?

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Scans Reveal How COVID-19 Can Harm the Brain

The Pharma Data

31, 2020 — Blood vessel damage and inflammation in the brains of deceased COVID-19 patients suggest the damage is not caused by the virus, but the body’s immune response to it. The researchers saw no signs of the virus in the tissue samples, which they said may mean that the damage was not caused by the virus itself.

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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.