Drug Target Review

APRIL 17, 2024

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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Immune Response Laboratories DNA Virus 104

Drug Target Review

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Researchers from the Laboratory of Bacteriology at The Rockefeller University have now found that bacteria sense phages by a defensive response named CBASS (cyclic oligonucleotide-based antiphage signalling system) which detects viral RNA. In bacteria , cGAS-like cyclases are central parts of the CBASS immune response.

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Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The cell’s nucleus, containing compacted DNA, is centrally positioned within the cell. It didn’t have the tools that are important for nuclear receptors, namely the ability to interact with DNA and the ability to translocate from the cytoplasm to the nucleus,” says Cheroutre. Does it modulate the signalling strength or duration?

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Regulations Research DNA Immune Response 98

PLOS: DNA Science

MAY 16, 2024

That’s thanks to accelerated genome sequencing technologies, expanded laboratory capabilities, and interacting infrastructure on a global level. Many of the links below are to some of the 100+ DNA Science posts that I wrote during the pandemic. A Novel Virus Appears In retrospect, everything unfolded with astonishing speed.

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Broad Institute

JUNE 27, 2024

Unlike gene editing, this “epigenetic” editing does not modify the underlying DNA sequence, but it should switch the gene off permanently, which means that this could be a one-time treatment. They used an engineered adeno-associated virus (AAV) that crosses the blood-brain barrier after intravenous administration.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 11, 2023

Another dangerous consequence can occur when the therapeutic or vaccine introduces proteins that can activate an uncontrolled immune response. In the case of therapeutics, the aim is usually to avoid patients’ immune responses. Impurities can integrate into the final product at various points during production.

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Production Vaccine Immune Response Therapies 130

Codon

JULY 27, 2023

They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. billion units of DNA code are transcribed into more than a hundred volumes, each a thousand pages long, in type so small as to be barely legible.” a lower risk of immune responses.

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