Drug Discovery World

JULY 5, 2023

Precision oncology supports targeted therapeutic treatments by determining the specific molecular characteristics of a tumour – the molecular phenotype, as it’s called – to obtain an in depth understanding of the patient’s unique cancer and using it to specifically target the patient’s cancer on a molecular level.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 16, 2023

Vaccine strategies over the last 25 years attempted to induce immune responses against tumour-associated antigens that are not absolutely specific to the tumour,” said presenting author Jeffrey Weber, Deputy Director of the NYU Langone Perlmutter Cancer Center and Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Professor of Oncology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

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Drug Target Review

MAY 14, 2024

Since cancer cells are under chronic stimulation of ER stress, the polypeptides cannot activate innate immune sensors in cancer cells even upon the polypeptide treatment. Which natural agonists impede the activation of intracellular DNA sensors in APCs, and what challenges do they pose?

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

According to the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) 2 , research-driven advances in treatments have resulted in the decline in death rates for melanoma, leukaemia, and kidney cancer. Research into new drugs and therapeutics is on-going and is helping drive mortality rates down. Research into new cancer drugs remain strong.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 23, 2020

” Dr. Stanley Plotkin , Professor Emeritus at The Wistar Institute, said, “INOVIO’s DNA vaccine appeared to be quite safe with few significant reactions but yet induced both antibody and T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2.” About INOVIO’s DNA Medicines Platform. mg and 2.0

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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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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

JUNE 21, 2024

Worldwide Clinical Trials attends each year to hear from the research community, connect with our sponsors and sites, and explore potential partnerships to drive forward novel treatments. Currently, there are 12 approved ADC drugs, and several hundred more are in the development pipeline.

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PLOS: DNA Science

JANUARY 4, 2024

.” CRISPRs are short DNA sequences, peppered with repeats, that latch onto DNA-cutting enzymes, commandeering and directing them to snip certain parts of a chromosome. The microbes deploy them to dismantle the genetic material of infecting viruses, a little like an immune response. Perhaps one of these.

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Drug Target Review

APRIL 26, 2023

Gene-editing methods allow researchers to modify DNA, resulting in alterations in physical characteristics such as eye colour and susceptibility to diseases. To achieve this, scientists utilise various technologies that function similarly to scissors, precisely cutting the DNA at a particular location.

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The Pharma Data

APRIL 8, 2021

Leadership in DNA damage response demonstrated in multiple presentations for AZD5305, a next-generation PARP1 selective inhibitor. Data for AZD5305 will demonstrate how the next wave of DNA damage response medicines can build on the success of PARP inhibitors, potentially allowing patients to stay on treatment longer.

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Drug Target Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Advances in research and development and the utilisation of combination treatment strategies are revolutionising the haematology care landscape, but more must be done to address patients’ individual needs. 2 It is this complexity that necessitates powerful, targeted combination therapies.

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Drug Target Review

JUNE 6, 2023

In this IO arena, we continue to search for additional treatments that can further benefit patients. Generally, IO has been focused on harnessing the anti-tumour activity of certain cancer-fighting T-cells , a key cell type involved in the adaptive immune defense system.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 15, 2023

Details of the poster presentation are as follows: Targeting tumor-associated macrophages to enhance anti-tumor immunity with the Dectin-2 agonistic antibody BDC-3042 – Justin A Kenkel, PhD Monday, April 17, 2023, 1.30pm – 5pm ET, Poster Board 11 2. antibody-drug conjugate, for the treatment of CLDN18.2-expressing

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Drug Target Review

APRIL 3, 2024

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 Pharma Data

MAY 15, 2023

The team at XinThera has developed research assets with the potential to target the DNA damage repair pathway in treating cancer and direct the body’s immune response in inflammatory diseases, both of which may improve outcomes for people living with these diseases,” said Flavius Martin, M.D.,

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Broad Institute

AUGUST 7, 2023

Related people Paul Blainey Nir Hacohen A signaling protein known as STING is a critical player in the human immune system, detecting signs of danger within cells and then activating a variety of defense mechanisms.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 31, 2023

Matt Hill , Founder and CEO of Elegen writes about the importance of innovation in DNA synthesis to address critical bottlenecks in biotherapy development. Regardless of the type of disease targeted, at the core of biotherapy development is synthetic biology and the use of synthetic DNA to programme specific behaviours within living cells.

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Drug Target Review

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Genome engineering and gene therapies that manipulate DNA sequences in cells have driven a biotechnological revolution over the past decade. 1 Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors are the leading platform for in vivo gene delivery for the treatment of various human diseases.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 14, 2023

Pettit Nassi and Perlmutter will be honoured during the AACR Annual Meeting 2023 Opening Ceremony on Sunday April 16 at 8am ET. Wherry’s award lecture will be held on Monday April 17 at 3:30pm ET. Simon’s award lecture will be held on Sunday April 16 at 3pm ET. Schietinger’s award lecture will be held on Tuesday April 18 at 4:45pm ET.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

.” Ming-Tain Lai, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at OBI Pharma stated, “In the trial, OBI-833 demonstrated a favorable safety profile and generated detectable anti-Globo H IgM/IgG responses. Title: OBI-833 was safe and immunogenic, without treatment-related SAEs, in a Phase 1 dose-escalation trial. 9:00 – 20:00 Eastern Time.

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Since 2017, a range of approvals by the FDA has resulted in cell therapies – in particular CAR-T-cell therapies – being used in the treatment of blood cancers. I would expect to see more data coming from the use of cell-based treatments for solid tumours such as breast, ovarian, pancreatic or colorectal cancer.

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LifeSciVC

MARCH 1, 2023

Learning from Past Failures to Drive Toward a More Durable Immune Response Following the initial clinical successes of blocking inhibitory receptors, like CTLA4 and PD1, many in the immuno-oncology field explored the potential to further enhance anti-tumor immunity by simultaneously enhancing co-stimulatory pathways.

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Codon

AUGUST 27, 2024

Allison Berke makes the case for real-time DNA sequencing and AI tools to detect pathogens before they spread widely. Reading DNA The first step in detecting a novel pathogen is recognizing it as an anomaly amidst a noisy background of other material. After copying the DNA to form a big pool, each piece is sequenced.

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Broad Institute

JUNE 27, 2024

Neurons were classified by software as either positive for prion protein expression (yellow) before treatment with CHARM (left panel), or negative (purple) after treatment (right panel). Like Cas9, ZFPs can serve as guide proteins to direct the tool to a target site in DNA. Credit: Neumann EN, Bertozzi TM, et al.

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Broad Institute

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Manguso, who’d recently graduated from college and was conducting research at the University of Copenhagen as a Fulbright scholar, moved back to the Boston area to be with his mother as she underwent treatment. His mother had a presentation of the disease that suggested her immune system was already on the job.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 12, 2023

Personalised vaccines mRNA-4157/V940 is a novel investigational mRNA-based personalised cancer vaccine consisting of a single synthetic mRNA coding for up to 34 neo-antigens that is designed and produced based on the unique mutational signature of the DNA sequence of the patient’s tumour.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Notably, we never modify the DNA of these cells, which avoids some of the safety concerns that have been reported with certain gene-editing technologies. From these cells we apply proprietary methods to manufacture pure populations of only the cell types which we wish to use in patients.

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Drug Target Review

JANUARY 15, 2024

Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) targeting tumour-specific antigens play an essential role in the treatment of many cancers. Unlike almost every other cell type (except B cells), T cells do not have the exact same chromosomal DNA sequences as other cells in the body. Many potential candidate antigens are under consideration.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 11, 2023

Gene-based therapeutics and vaccines hold immense potential for more efficient and personalised treatment and prevention of complex diseases. Another dangerous consequence can occur when the therapeutic or vaccine introduces proteins that can activate an uncontrolled immune response.

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 15, 2022

These platforms all induce double strand cuts in the chromosomal DNA that can be sealed by the cell, leading to a specific gene disruption, or resulting in a new target site for inserting DNA segments. Reduce/eliminate chromosomal disruptions caused by double-strand DNA breaks. In one example, Choi et al.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Precision medicine promises a paradigm shift to confidently match the right patients to the right treatment at the right time. Where do we fulfill this need in matching patients to trials, and ultimately to treatments? Both the binary and quantitative have relied on measurement of protein, DNA, and more recently, RNA.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 8, 2024

For decades, the life sciences community held the belief that RNA was merely the intermediary messenger (mRNA) between DNA and protein, a dogma that has been the foundation of biology. Two such FDA-approved RNA aptamers are pegaptanib and avacincaptad pegol, indicated for the treatment of macular degeneration.

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PLOS: DNA Science

MAY 16, 2024

Many of the links below are to some of the 100+ DNA Science posts that I wrote during the pandemic. • identifies parts of the virus to target to provoke an immune response from a vaccine. • reveals viral vulnerability to inspire novel treatments. appeared first on DNA Science.

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Drug Target Review

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) have been a groundbreaking approach to cancer treatment with their ability to deliver cytotoxic drugs directly to diseased cells while sparing healthy tissues. 2 In response, DNA-damaging agents that could target the entire cell cycle received renewed attention as ADC payloads.

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Codon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-048 The Virus that Cures It’s been over 25 years since the science magazine Discover first ran an extraordinary article about how a long-forgotten medical treatment, used in the former Soviet country of Georgia, could save us from the growing threat of untreatable, drug-resistant infections.

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PLOS: DNA Science

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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 Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Compared to placebo, participants vaccinated with three HB-101 doses had: a 48 percent reduction in CMV viremia (presence of CMV DNA in the blood); a 42 percent reduction in the use of antiviral therapy; and. HOOKIPA’s viral vectors target antigen presenting cells in vivo to activate the immune system.

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