Broad Institute

OCTOBER 11, 2023

He also read everything he could about her disease, including emerging evidence that suggested that the immune system could recognize and kill Merkel cell carcinoma. His mother had a presentation of the disease that suggested her immune system was already on the job.

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

. “We used NanoSTING because the adjuvant for intranasal vaccination and single-cell RNA-sequencing to verify the nasal-associated lymphatic tissue as an inductive site upon vaccination. A fundamental limitation of intramuscular vaccines is that they’re not designed to elicit mucosal immunity.

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Drug Target Review

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) have made significant advancements in treating oncological diseases, with therapies like CAR-T cell treatments transforming cancer care. This approach can be highly targeted, with the potential to correct mutations that lead to specific diseases or deliver therapeutic genes to improve heart function.

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DrugBank

MAY 15, 2024

Today, we're able to identify and target specific molecules involved in disease processes—a method that's much more like using a sniper rifle than throwing darts blindfolded. Among these targets are proteins, receptors, and enzymes that are fundamental to disease mechanisms.

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 8, 2022

Also, the incidence of severe disease progression was observed to be significantly reduced. Proteins of SARS-CoV-2 can alter viral ribonucleic acids in a way, that they become indistinguishable from endogenous RNA. Camouflage protects virus from immune system. For example, viral RNAs are masked by the addition of a methyl group.

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Drug Target Review

MARCH 21, 2024

Dystrophin is mutated in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare disease that causes progressive muscle weakness and atrophy. AAV-based therapies often can’t be dosed more than once due to concerns about an immune response. Of note, mRNA is redosable as opposed to AAV. mdx mutant mice treated with mRNA-DMD?

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Strong Th1 cell-mediated immune responses were also observed for the vaccine candidates with either adjuvant. We are encouraged by the high level of neutralizing antibodies in combination with the strong Th1 response which we believe could play an important role in controlling infection.

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The Open Targets Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

Amongst other tasks, gget opentargets can quickly find diseases and drugs associated with a specific gene. For example, to find drugs associated with the human IL13 gene (Ensembl ID ENSG00000169194*), a cytokine that plays an important role in allergic inflammation and immune response to parasite infection, you can use: # Install gget !pip

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Overall, the vaccine protected against symptomatic disease in 70% of cases, according to a team led by researchers from Oxford University in England. ” Previous clinical trials of the vaccine had found that the vaccine triggers antibody and T-cell immune responses, and is safe in people aged 18 and older. TUESDAY, Dec.

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Drug Target Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We had built a machine learning classifier that has been trained to identify amino acid sequences that have the potential to mimic ‘host defense peptides’ from the human innate immune system. Such peptides play a critical role in the machinery for amplifying innate immune responses.

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The Pharma Data

JUNE 26, 2021

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines global business unit of Sanofi and Translate Bio (NASDAQ: TBIO), a clinical-stage messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics company, have initiated a Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating an mRNA-based investigational vaccine against seasonal influenza. JUNE 22 , 2021.

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 11, 2021

Clinical trial to assess safety, immune response and reactogenicity, after preclinical data showed high neutralizing antibody levels. the vaccines global business unit of Sanofi, to develop mRNA vaccines for up to five infectious disease pathogens. Expected to enroll 415 participants; interim results expected in Q3 2021.

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Codon

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

The earliest ones relied on simple linear regression and attempted to correlate genetic variations with observable traits or disease risks — such as drug metabolization rates or cancer susceptibility. Over the decade, entire categories of diseases disappeared. 2024 Statistical models of organisms have existed for decades.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 21, 2021

.” New COVID variants out of Britain, South Africa and Brazil appear to be more infectious, possibly because the spike protein has mutated to make transmission between people easier, said Dr. Mirella Salvatore, an infectious disease expert and assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. interview this week.

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Codon

AUGUST 27, 2024

Doctors in training are told that when they hear hoofbeats, they should think horses, not zebras; rare diseases are the exception, not the rule. Sometimes, though, novel diseases do emerge, and as COVID-19 demonstrated, they can surprise us. This is the third essay of four in our pandemic mini-issue.

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JUNE 25, 2021

In the unprecedented context of at least 13 variants circulating within the study population subset assessed at this interim analysis, CVnCoV demonstrated an interim vaccine efficacy of 47% against COVID-19 disease of any severity and did not meet prespecified statistical success criteria. About CureVac.

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Codon

DECEMBER 12, 2024

DNA and RNA molecules are also built from exclusively right-handed nucleic acids. Across the tree of life, organisms strictly require exactly one of the two chiral forms of their molecular building blocks — amino acids, nucleotides of RNA and DNA. 4 As far as we know, right-handed proteins never occur naturally.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The Moderna vaccine is similar to Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine in the sense that they both use an approach utilizing messenger RNA (mRNA). Instead, it uses a genetic code, which tricks the body into developing an immune response to the virus.

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Dark Matter Blog

JULY 16, 2021

As soon as I learned about DNA and RNA, I wanted to be a molecular biologist. Last stops at RNA My last roles in biotech were where my original passion began: DNA and RNA. My last stop at Arrakis Therapeutics is with a company targeting RNA with small molecules. I wanted to use molecular biology to create drugs.

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Immunization of non-human primates (rhesus macaques) with BNT162b2, a nucleoside-modified messenger RNA (modRNA) candidate that expresses the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein, resulted in strong anti-viral effects against an infectious SARS-CoV-2 challenge. producing CD8+ T cell responses, which is thought to promote an anti-viral effect.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 25, 2020

The Phase 1 interim analysis showed that mRNA-1273 was generally well-tolerated across all age groups and induced rapid and strong immune responses against SARS-CoV-2. Moderna is advancing messenger RNA (mRNA) science to create a new class of transformative medicines for patients. 26, 2020 11:00 UTC. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(

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Drug Target Review

APRIL 3, 2024

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. Everything started in school with an experiment on isolating DNA from bananas. in North America) in late 2017.

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

CNGA3-achromatopsia is a hereditary disease that causes people to see in shades of gray. Their cone cells, which are responsible for color vision, don’t work like normal. They’re talking about a patient who has a rare genetic disease. How do transcription factors couple up with the correct RNA molecule?

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

CNGA3-achromatopsia is a hereditary disease that causes people to see in shades of gray. Their cone cells, which are responsible for color vision, don’t work like normal. They’re talking about a patient who has a rare genetic disease. How do transcription factors couple up with the correct RNA molecule?

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 22, 2021

As research developments into RNA vaccines help scientists accelerate drug candidates to arm the immune system against coronavirus, Pharma IQ ’s Keeping tabs on Covid-19 update returns with news from some of the biotechnology innovators leading the fight against the global pandemic.

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Codon

APRIL 9, 2023

Small snippets of double-stranded RNA were sprayed onto hot pepper plants to control a pest, called Frankliniella occidentalis. The RNA strands shut down a specific gene in the insects, and killed half after 7 days. RNA may offer a safer form of pest control in the future. for its gene therapy for an inherited eye disease.

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Codon

APRIL 30, 2023

In one experiment, the microneedle patches were used to deliver a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine into mice, producing immune responses similar to a traditional injection. Printed vaccines caused mice to have a faster immune response. Read more at Nature Biotechnology (some coverage in MIT News , too.) vander Straeten et al.

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Codon

APRIL 30, 2023

In one experiment, the microneedle patches were used to deliver a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine into mice, producing immune responses similar to a traditional injection. Printed vaccines caused mice to have a faster immune response. Read more at Nature Biotechnology (some coverage in MIT News , too.) vander Straeten et al.

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Codon

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Physicians working in the early 20th century had little choice but to treat the world’s most rampant infectious disease with methods such as these. But even now, more than a century later, TB remains the deadliest infectious disease on Earth, killing about 1.2 million people every year. tuberculosis.

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The Pharma Data

JULY 6, 2021

But HIV’s ability to mutate isn’t unique among RNA viruses – most viruses develop mutations, or changes in their genetic code, over time. ” In the same time period, mRNA vaccines were being deployed and immune responses to those vaccines were being studied.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 31, 2020

In studies, the vaccines were found to be 94% to 95% effective in preventing COVID-19 disease. The messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines encode a form of the spike (S) protein of SARS-CoV-2 virus. The partial piece of the spike protein cannot cause COVID-19 disease. How do they work? months; ORR 22% vs. 16%).

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the second vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine contains messenger RNA (mRNA), which is genetic material. SILVER SPRING, Md. ,

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Broad Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The immune system can carry out many biological processes, from killing viruses to fighting cancer, thanks in large part to approximately 100 key cell-signaling proteins called cytokines, which instruct immune cells what to do. The reference, called the Immune Dictionary , appears today in Nature.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 3, 2021

The company announced plans to submit donanemab for Alzheimer’s disease and tirzepatide for type 2 diabetes to regulatory authorities by the end of 2021. announced an exclusive collaboration focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of potential novel small molecules that stimulate tumor-specific immune responses.

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The Pharma Data

JULY 18, 2021

Clinical Data Supporting Approval Demonstrated Non-Inferior Immune Responses for the Serotypes Shared with PCV13 (1, 3, 4, 5, 6A, 6B, 7F, 9V, 14, 18C, 19A, 19F and 23F). VAXNEUVANCE Elicited Superior Immune Responses for Serotypes 3, 22F and 33F Compared to PCV13, Which Are Major Causes of Disease.

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Broad Institute

MAY 1, 2024

By Allessandra DiCorato May 1, 2024 Credit: Ricardo Job-Reese, Broad Communications The health benefits of exercise are well known but new research shows that the body’s response to exercise is more complex and far-reaching than previously thought. Whole-body analysis Conducting such a large and detailed study required a lot of planning.

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Broad Institute

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The intestine maintains a delicate balance in the body, absorbing nutrients and water while maintaining a healthy relationship with the gut microbiome, but this equilibrium is disrupted in parts of the intestine in conditions such as celiac disease, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn’s disease.

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