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Genetic tracing at the Huanan Seafood market further supports COVID animal origins

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A new study provides a list of the wildlife species present at the market from which SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, most likely arose in late 2019. The study is based on a new analysis of metatranscriptomic data released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Chewing Gum Reveals Stone Age Diet and Disease

PLOS: DNA Science

We can learn about life, past and present, anywhere we find DNA and determine its sequence. A recent report in PLOS ONE analyzes DNA from an adenovirus and a herpes virus discovered in preserved feces – coprolites – from 5,500 to 7,000 years ago at an archaeological site in Japan.

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Rare autoantibody diseases: an innovative targeted pathway

Drug Target Review

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. This can create an abnormal immune response that attacks the cells of our bodies and contributes to the development of autoantibody diseases.

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Role(s) of G3BPs in human pathogenesis [Minireview]

ASPET

Several ongoing investigations have associated G3BPs with a number of disease states including cancer progression, invasion, metastasis, and viral infection and have highlighted its potential as a target for cancer therapeutic agents. We will also discuss the potential of G3BPs as a therapeutic target.

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Advancing vaccine design: potential of peptide mimicry

Drug Target Review

In a new development, a recent paper published in Biology Methods & Protocols by Oxford University Press has highlighted a promising avenue for enhancing vaccine efficacy against infectious pathogens like the COVID-19 virus. Since December 2019, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection has become a worldwide urgent public health concern.

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Day Zero Antivirals for Future Pandemics

Codon

When COVID-19 emerged in 2019, by contrast, mRNA vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna took just 326 days from the initial sequencing of the virus to gaining approval for emergency use. These drugs would be ideal tools to bridge the wait for a vaccine against a quickly-spreading virus.

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T-cell receptors offer window to the cell for a new class of cancer therapeutics

Drug Target Review

An important limitation of antibodies against tumour antigens is that these agents direct responses to molecular targets present on the surface of the cell. Figure 1: HLA Class I presentation of peptides derived from intracellular antigens. As described below, it also presents challenges and opportunities for TCR-based therapeutics.