Science Daily: Pharmacology News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Their findings uncover detailed information that could help overcome the limitations of today's immunotherapies and identify new drug targets for a wide range of diseases, including autoimmune diseases and cancer.

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Plenge Gen

APRIL 7, 2020

Pharmacologic intervention has the opportunity to impact disease progression in the SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 crisis. … The post Drug repurposing in SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19: preventing the maladaptive immune response leading to critical disease requiring ICU care. The views expressed here are my own.]

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Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By employing a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease, the researchers have illuminated a surprising revelation: it’s the border-associated macrophages (BAMs), not the microglia, that steer the neuroinflammatory response within the brain. However, identifying the precise cells presenting the antigens remained elusive.

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Chemical Biology and Drug Design

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Terpenes are compounds that inhibit the growth of Leishmania spp, Schistosoma spp, and Echinococcus spp, cause changes in parasite ultrastructure, inhibit enzyme activity, and modulate the immune response. Their use in combination therapy decreases the concentration of the reference drug used.

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Drug Target Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

How can PDOs revolutionise drug discovery and deepen our understanding of disease? Patient-derived organoids (PDOs) are proliferative 3D cell structures derived from tissue samples of both healthy and diseased tissue. Improved translatability to the patient and the disease state.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 16, 2021

Better activation of innate and adaptive immune responses was achieved with CV2CoV, resulting in faster response onset, higher titers of antibodies, and stronger memory B and T cell activation as compared to the first-generation candidate, CVnCoV. “In Induction of innate immunity was investigated via specific cytokine markers.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JULY 10, 2024

Scientists have discovered a molecular defect that promotes the pathologic immune response in systemic lupus erythematosus (known as lupus) and show that reversing this defect may potentially reverse the disease.

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Drug Target Review

JULY 7, 2023

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. Antibodies protect us by attaching to molecules on those invaders (known as antigens) and triggering our body’s natural immune response to destroy them.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

A strain of the bacterium harbored in the children's gut microbial communities possessed a previously unknown gene capable of producing and metabolizing key molecules involved in regulating many important functions ranging from appetite, immune responses, neuronal function, and the ability of pathogenic bacteria to produce disease.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Canadian biopharmaceutical company Medicago has announced that its investigational COVID-19 vaccine generated “significant antibody and cellular immune responses” after two doses in all subjects in an early-stage clinical trial. Based on the promising phase 1 data, the company plans to proceed with a phase 2/3 clinical trial. “We

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JULY 12, 2023

Researchers have demonstrated that a transplant surgical procedure (called 'needle trauma') triggers a profound immune response and causes the death of most grafted dopamine neurons.

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Drug Target Review

AUGUST 11, 2023

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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The Pharma Data

MAY 16, 2021

Adjuvanted recombinant COVID-19 vaccine candidate triggered strong neutralizing antibody responses in all adult age groups. High immune response after a single dose in patients with prior infection shows strong booster potential. For media and investors only. Issued: London UK. About the Phase 2 study.

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Broad Institute

JANUARY 19, 2024

By examining the genomes of bacteria collected from hundreds of people with persistent Salmonella infections, they discovered genetic mutations that both reduce the bacteria’s “virulence,” or ability to infect, and dampen the host’s immune responses, creating a kind of molecular camouflage that shields the bacteria from the immune system’s gaze.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Infectious Disease Least Severe in School-Aged Children. 27, 2020 — School-aged children seem to have the least severe disease for different infectious diseases, according to a study published online Oct. Professional. TUESDAY, Oct. 15 in Scientific Data. Glynn, Ph.D., ” Abstract/Full Text. © 2020 HealthDay. .

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DrugBank

JULY 18, 2024

Vaccines have consistently demonstrated their efficacy in protecting people from infectious diseases. This led to the eradication of smallpox and polio – two debilitating diseases that historically caused global epidemics. Adjuvants are substances added to vaccines to enhance the immune response.

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The Pharma Data

JULY 15, 2021

Antibody and T-cell immune responses strong and stable at eight months after immunization Demonstrated neutralizing antibody activity against the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) In addition, the T-cell responses are especially strong and stable over time, which is also potentially important for activity against these variants.”.

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The Pharma Data

JUNE 29, 2021

A sub-analysis from the Oxford-led COV001 and COV002 trials with Vaxzevria induced strong immune responses following either a prolonged second dose interval of up to 45 weeks or following a third boosting dose. There is an excellent response to a second dose, even after a 10 month delay from the first.”.

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Drug Target Review

JANUARY 23, 2024

In April 2023, we saw the first randomised data applying an individualised vaccine in combination with checkpoint inhibition for resectable melanoma, demonstrating benefit in terms of time to disease recurrence. Espen integrates clinical and research expertise as Director of Medical Affairs.

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addgene Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Monoclonal antibody drugs are popular therapeutics for a plethora of disease conditions, from cancer to autoimmune disorders. Antibodies administered as drugs are still immunogenic, meaning that they elicit an immune response from the body.

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Crown Bioscience

AUGUST 2, 2021

In this blog we will explore immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) —which represent a diverse group of conditions characterized by an excessive and/or inappropriate immune response.

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Broad Institute

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

By Leah Eisenstadt November 6, 2024 Credit: Ricardo Job-Reese, Broad Communications Despite being one of the rarer complications from immune checkpoint inhibitors, myocarditis is the most deadly. They also found T cells in the peripheral blood that originated in the heart and correlated with severity of disease.

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PLOS: DNA Science

OCTOBER 3, 2024

One of the oldest and most successful immunotherapies is simpler: a tamed version of a classic vaccine, against the infectious disease tuberculosis (TB). Their report appears in Disease Models and Mechanisms. Eventually, a strain emerged that seemingly protected against a host developing the associated infectious lung disease.

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Drug Target Review

JULY 17, 2024

GigaGen’s single-cell recombinant technology enables the selection and replication of a highly specific and diverse antibody response, which can also be modified to create therapeutics that are more potent than those provided by a natural immune response.

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Drug Target Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Additionally, ADSCs possess immunomodulatory properties, enabling them to modulate immune responses and promote tissue healing. These characteristics position ADSCs as promising candidates for addressing a wide range of medical conditions, from degenerative diseases to traumatic injuries.

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Drug Target Review

JUNE 27, 2023

Lastly, Brent Warner, President of Gene Therapy at Poseida Therapeutics, elucidates the groundbreaking advancements in gene editing that are reshaping the landscape of genetic disease treatment.

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Drug Target Review

JULY 11, 2023

In the quest to combat and eradicate diseases, scientists and researchers are increasingly turning to the immense potential of artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool. It was here that the Impact Medicine Fund was raised as a concept around wellness for those with disease, with the ambition of unlocking some of this vast potential.

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Drug Target Review

MARCH 1, 2024

This antigen-spreading is critical to long-term protection because tumour often develop with inconsistent antigen expression – equipping the immune response to target many diverse tumour antigens may allow for more complete anti-tumour activity.

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Chemical Biology and Drug Design

JANUARY 29, 2024

sPLA 2 inhibitors have been developed for the treatment of inflammatory and other conditions such as cardiovascular disease, arteriosclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis. Besides their roles in the degradation of phospholipids, these enzymes also play an important role in the immune response by promoting inflammation.

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Drug Target Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

2 Previously, La-Beck’s research has shown that liposomes made of phospholipids and cholesterol, like those used in patients, doubled tumour size in mice by suppressing their immune response in some tumours. Macrophages were detected as the cells responsible for these negative effects.

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SugarCone Biotech

JUNE 10, 2024

Targeting 4-1BB remained of interest to the immuno-oncology field as cell culture experiments and tumor models in mice suggested that robust anti-tumor immune responses could be triggered by anti-4-1BB antibody therapies. This is the T cell type most closely associated with anti-tumor immune responses.

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Chemical Biology and Drug Design

APRIL 28, 2023

The public's worry about the neglected tropical disease is growing as new foci of the illness arise, which are exacerbated by alterations in behavior, changes in the environment, and an enlarged range of sand fly vectors. Leishmania research has advanced significantly during the past three decades in a few different avenues.

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Our results show that the candidate vaccine formulation is safe, produces rapid immune responses – within seven days – and elicits comprehensive immunity against SARS-CoV-2,” said Varadarajan. A fundamental limitation of intramuscular vaccines is that they’re not designed to elicit mucosal immunity.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Within the intricate molecular landscape inside of a cell, the orchestration of proteins demands precise control to avoid disease. Protein degradation is a fundamental process that influences cellular activities such as the cell cycle, cell death, or immune response. At […]

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PLOS: DNA Science

OCTOBER 12, 2023

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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ASPET

JANUARY 22, 2024

Here, we revealed that INH #1 exerted anti-inflammatory effects in vivo via inhibition of inflammatory mediators and suppression of cellular immune responses. This compound could be a novel candidate for inhibition of NF-B in certain inflammatory diseases.

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Drug Target Review

OCTOBER 2, 2023

These peptides are a vital part of the immune system’s display-recognition mechanism that enables T cells to distinguish between self and non-self-antigens, recognizing intruders to initiate immune responses.

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