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An Orbimed-backed biotech launches with $85M and plans for a new kind of DNA medicine

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Rampart Biosciences closed a Series A round that will fund its goal to develop more potent DNA-based medicines that avoid immune responses.

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DNA element with a murky past is borrowing cell's repair machinery

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

They hijack a little-known piece of the cell's DNA repair function to close themselves into a ring-like shape and then create a matching double strand. The finding upends 40 years of conventional wisdom and may offer new insights into cancer, viral infections and immune responses.

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The role of CRISPR in microbiome engineering breakthroughs

Drug Target Review

When faced with a viral threat, bacterial cells developed an immune response by capturing and copying DNA fragments of viruses. This allowed bacteria to recognise subsequent attacks and cleave the viral DNA to stop the viral infection. It was also discovered that the Cas enzyme was responsible for DNA cleavage.

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Regulatory Guidance for Oligonucleotide Bioanalysis in Drug Development

Alta Sciences

These interactions may disrupt protein function, trigger immune responses, or contribute to other toxicological risks. to ligands or linkers) may elicit immune responses. An oligonucleotide is a short strand of nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA or RNA, used in genetic research and therapy.

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Designing a Better Probiotic. CRISPR Hubris?

PLOS: DNA Science

The molecular tools of CRISPR were borrowed and developed from the natural immune response of bacteria to viruses – bacteriophages – that infect them. DNA Science recently covered perfumes resurrected from extinct plants, but using older and less precise recombinant DNA technology. CRISPR Hubris?

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The immune system’s role in lung cancer risk

Drug Target Review

HLA are the critical molecules that our immune systems use to present peptides to T cells and facilitate recognition and killing in immune responses to pathogens. HLA-II presents peptides to CD4 T cells thought to be important for indirectly helping immune responses and facilitating antibody production.

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Targeted drug treatment leads tumor cells to imitate viral infection

Broad Institute

Treatment with mIDH1 blockers unearths these remnants, triggering an immune response against the tumor cells. IDH1 normally facilitates the activity of enzymes called demethylases, which remove chemical flags called methylation marks from DNA, allowing genes to be transcribed into RNA.