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A surprising new role for a major immune regulator

Broad Institute

A surprising new role for a major immune regulator By Tom Ulrich August 7, 2023 Breadcrumb Home A surprising new role for a major immune regulator By Anne Trafton, MIT News August 7, 2023 Credit: RCSB Protein Data Bank A model of the human STING protein.

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New research holds significance in regulating T cell function

Drug Target Review

New researched published in the journal Immunity , T cells exhibit an unusual, yet vital behaviour in their battle against pathogens and cancer cells, involving a nuclear receptor. This receptor, referred to as retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARα), is recognised for its regulation of gene expression within the nucleus.

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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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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

Regulators traditionally want to see a single, stable, well-characterized drug before giving the green light for it to be tested in a clinical trial, not dozens of different viruses; let alone ones that are best found in unappealing places like sewage , hospital waste, or bird poop.

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Exploring the Future of Oncology with ADCs and TILs: Key Insights From ASCO  

Conversations in Drug Development Trends

Although there are a range of efficacies across different tumor types that require a greater understanding, the use of circulating tumor DNA profiles holds promise for personalized treatment strategies that better target the drug for the patient, potentially revolutionizing how ADCs are deployed in clinical practice.

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Women in Stem with Dr Christine Schuberth-Wagner

Drug Target Review

Everything started in school with an experiment on isolating DNA from bananas. 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.

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The Dangers of Mirrored Life

Codon

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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