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Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Repurposing

DrugBank

The pharmaceutical industry grapples with the persistent challenge of high attrition rates and escalating costs inherent in drug development. This necessitates exploring alternative strategies to expedite drug discovery and optimize resource allocation.

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New insights into the role of viral capsids in gene therapy safety

Drug Target Review

2,3 Engineering both the capsid and DNA cargo improves the safety and efficacy of rAAV vectors and expands their clinical applications. Therefore, vectors based on these serotypes may enable targeted gene delivery and optimal transduction efficiency.

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Kiromic Announces the Filing of Key European Patents for Its Chimeric PD-1 (chPD1) Target

The Pharma Data

Chimeric PD-1 T-cells also release cytokines to further initiate immune responses to eradicate the tumor cells. The pipeline development is leveraged through the Company’s proprietary target discovery engine called “DIAMOND.” The Company maintains offices in Houston, Texas.

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Article FDA Thank You Draft guidance on potency assays for CGT products garners extensive stakeholder input

Agency IQ

In drug development, biochemical assays might be used to determine a product’s binding affinity to a target receptor of interest, along with the strength, stability and duration of the target-ligand complex after the product binds to the receptor. The new draft guidance can be broken into three main parts.

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A research team searches for every gene that helps tumors evade immunotherapy

Broad Institute

The drugs work by blocking a protein, PD-1 — which helps keep immune responses in check — and stimulating the immune system to attack tumors. We wanted to see whether there were as yet undiscovered drug targets that would lead to amazing cancer immunotherapies,” Manguso said.

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T-cell receptors offer window to the cell for a new class of cancer therapeutics

Drug Target Review

To be therapeutically useful, antigenic peptides must be presented in a way that allows immune responses to destroy cancer cells without causing unacceptable damage to healthy tissue. With convergent technology, it is possible to engineer monoclonal antibodies that mimic the specificity of TCRs for tumour‑specific pHLA targets.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

Such contaminants could have the same toxic effects as the bacterial infection, or provoke a severe immune response in the patient, and therefore the phage mixtures must go through extensive purification and testing procedures. Locus has products in development targeting four common sources of bacterial infections: E.

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