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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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mRNA Therapeutics: Revolutionizing Treatment Beyond Vaccines

DrugBank

Once delivered into the body, the mRNA instructs cells to produce these antigens, which are then presented to the immune system. This process triggers a robust immune response, enabling the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells. Another challenge is the potential for unintended immune responses.

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OBI Pharma Announces Presentations at ESMO Asia 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting for OBI-833, a Novel Anti-Globo H Targeted Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine

The Pharma Data

Presentations to highlight the OBI-833 Phase 1 clinical study results in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and the dose escalation cohort. These results will be presented by the lead investigators of OBI Pharma’s novel anti-Globo H therapeutic cancer vaccine, OBI-833. ” Presentation number: 397P / Poster: ID 680.

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Targeting the immunotherapy potential of cytokines IL-12 and IL-18 with new advancements in protein engineering

Drug Target Review

Natural killer (NK) cells are another immune cell type that, as the name suggests, also have potent cell-killing activity, and have a well-known role in the anti-tumour immune response. In the context of a tumour microenvironment, Tregs are often present in high numbers, preventing an effective immune response to the tumour.

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FDA Returns Disappointing News for ALS Stem Cell Therapy

PLOS: DNA Science

Last week DNA Science covered a setback in a clinical trial of a gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). It aims to correct the faulty instructions at the DNA level, straightforward, at least conceptually, because mutations are deletions, of part or all of the gene. That’s not the case for ALS.

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Unveiling neoantigen-directed cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

Neoantigen-directed T-cell therapy is a potentially powerful approach that harnesses a patient’s own immune system to fight cancer. One aspect of the collaboration focuses on screening and identification of therapeutic T-cell receptors (TCRs) to target a common shared neoantigen present in many cancer patients.

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Novel Therapeutic Candidate Puts the STING Back into Immunotherapy

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One approach currently being explored involves stimulating innate immune response pathways. For example, the STimulator of InterferoN Genes (STING) pathway, which is known to play a critical role in innate immunity in response to viral and bacterial DNA, has also been shown to promote anti-tumor immune responses.