Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Immunotherapies, which mobilize the body's immune defenses against a cancer, have not been effective for GBM, in part because the tumor's surrounding environment is largely impenetrable to assaults from the body's immune system.

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Drug Target Review

AUGUST 11, 2023

In a new development, a recent paper published in Biology Methods & Protocols by Oxford University Press has highlighted a promising avenue for enhancing vaccine efficacy against infectious pathogens like the COVID-19 virus. The role of extracellular vesicles in COVID-19 virus infection [Internet]. Available from: [link]

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 22, 2024

The MIS is developing novel vaccine concepts for broad and potent protective immune responses against influenza virus for patients, as well as to provide a mechanistic principle for designing vaccines for other hypervariable pathogens such as coronaviruses and HIV-1 2.

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Broad Institute

JULY 11, 2024

Targeted drug treatment leads tumor cells to imitate viral infection By Ari Navetta July 11, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Targeted drug treatment leads tumor cells to imitate viral infection Exploiting "viral mimicry," mIDH1 inhibitors trick tumors into thinking they are infected with a virus.

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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. His mentorship produced numerous publications. e419 (2023).

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PLOS: DNA Science

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Can they deliver healing genes without triggering an overactive immune response? The details are disturbingly reminiscent of the famous case of Jesse Gelsinger , who died from a ferocious immune response to experimental gene therapy in September 1999. An immune response is two-tiered.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 15, 2021

Melody Swartz, Jeffrey Hubbell and colleagues had previously developed a vaccine delivery tool called polymersomes – self-assembling, spherical nanoparticles that can encapsulate antigens and adjuvants (helper molecules that boost the immune response) and then release them inside immune cells.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Dr Nigel Blackburn, Director of Cancer Research UK’s Centre for Drug Development, says: “What’s interesting about IgE is its involvement in our body’s defence against parasites and the particularly powerful immune response it elicits. expressing cancers.

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Drug Target Review

DECEMBER 28, 2023

These neoantigens are identified by T cells of the immune system as foreign proteins and thus trigger an immune response. Recognition of bacteria, viruses and fungal invaders as ‘foreign’ makes sense, but how does the immune system recognise cancer cells as a threat?

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Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This sugar-coated mucin binding to checkpoint receptors signals that the cancer cell poses no threat, consequently blocking the immune response. Tender elaborated that these results in immune cells ignoring the cancer rather than eliminating it, as they normally would.

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Drug Target Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We had built a machine learning classifier that has been trained to identify amino acid sequences that have the potential to mimic ‘host defense peptides’ from the human innate immune system. Such peptides play a critical role in the machinery for amplifying innate immune responses. This work can potentially help with that also.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 15, 2023

Multiple oncolytic viruses have been shown to induce various beneficial changes in the tumor microenvironment (TME), which ultimately support induction of anti-tumor immune responses. April 16, 2023, 1.30pm – 5pm ET The post Eight announcements to expect at AACR 2023 appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 9, 2021

The pre-clinical animal trials of the intranasal vaccine showed a reduction in both the impact of the disease itself and transmission of the virus. This should prevent both clinical disease and virus transmission, to halt the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The decoy is a specially engineered protein particle that mimics the 3D structure of the ACE2 receptor , a protein on the surface of our cells that the virus’s spike proteins bind to as the first step in causing an infection. In the lab, it also appeared to neutralize the virus as well as monoclonal antibodies used to treat COVID-19.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Currently in Phase 3 clinical testing in the United Kingdom for the prevention of COVID-19, NVX-CoV2373 is a recombinant protein vaccine adjuvanted with Novavax’ proprietary Matrix-M to enhance the immune response. About Novavax. Novavax, Inc.?(Nasdaq: Novavax Forward Looking Statements.

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The Pharma Data

JUNE 1, 2022

Blocking an immune response-related enzyme holds promise in preventing or treating severe COVID-19 symptoms by reducing inflammation, tissue injury and blood clots in the lungs, new research in mice suggests. Previous research has shown that caspase 11 in mice has many of the same immune-response functions as caspase 4 in humans.

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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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Advarra

JANUARY 11, 2024

After injection of such a vaccine, the mRNA instructs cells to produce proteins designed to stimulate an immune response against these same protein targets when they show up in viruses or in tumor cells. Adoptive T Cell Therapies Adoptive T cell therapy is another form of cancer treatment leveraging the patient’s immune system.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In the study, immunization with the hAd5-COVID-19 vaccine inhibited SARS-CoV-2 virus replication in 100% (10 of 10) of Rhesus macaques, with a drop in viral replication starting on the first day of vaccine administration, and undetectable viral levels as early as three to five days post-challenge in most of the animals.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

NVX-CoV2373 is a vaccine candidate engineered from the genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease. In preclinical trials, NVX-CoV2373 demonstrated induction of antibodies that block binding of spike protein to receptors targeted by the virus, a critical aspect for effective vaccine protection.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

A research group from the National Institutes of Health has successfully developed a vaccine against Sudan virus (SUDV) based on the licensed Ebola virus (EBOV) vaccine. SUDV, identified in 1976, is one of the four viruses known to cause human Ebolavirus disease.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

About NVX-CoV2373 NVX-CoV2373 is a protein-based vaccine candidate engineered from the genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease. is undertaking clinical trials for NVX-CoV2373, its vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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Broad Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The immune system can carry out many biological processes, from killing viruses to fighting cancer, thanks in large part to approximately 100 key cell-signaling proteins called cytokines, which instruct immune cells what to do. For many immune-mediated diseases, there's no cure or treatment. Did any results surprise you?

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 22, 2021

Many of the elderly patients who survived the virus were poor: not exactly the demographic you would expect to fare well in a health crisis. This is how many medical studies begin, said biomedical engineering professor Phil Bourne, who serves as founding dean for the School of Data Science.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 11, 2021

Upon binding, the antibodies block the spike protein from interacting with ACE2 and thereby prevent virus-induced cell-killing, also known as cytopathic effect. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, IGM Biosciences is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on creating and developing engineered IgM antibodies.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 22, 2021

iosBio has claimed the OraPro platform enables oral delivery of thermally-stable, viral vector vaccines, which are engineered to withstand temperatures of up to 50°C. Novavax’s vaccine is a recombinant protein vaccine adjuvanted with Novavax’s nanoparticle technology, Matrix-M, which enhances immune response in recipients.

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The mysteries of cancer are starting to yield to the range of advanced therapies available and cell therapies – especially engineered cell therapies – are at the leading edge of that progress.” – Carlo Russo, CEO of Genenta.? . “In Carlo Russo, CEO of Genenta.? .

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 22, 2022

Immunotherapies have become more popular due to their ability to trigger and train the patient’s immune system to recognise and attack tumour cells, provide strong immune responses, and reduce the severity of adverse side effects generally associated with chemotherapies. Forsberget al. Nat Commun. 2019;10(1):3874.doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11782-w.

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PLOS: DNA Science

JANUARY 4, 2024

The microbes deploy them to dismantle the genetic material of infecting viruses, a little like an immune response. The research was recently published in Nature Biomedical Engineering. The genomes of certain bacteria naturally harbor CRISPR sequences. What’s Next?

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin a Phase I clinical trial of hAd5-COVID-19, the company’s novel COVID-19 vaccine candidate that targets both the inner nucleocapsid (N), engineered to activate T cells, and outer spike (S) protein, engineered to activate antibodies against the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2).

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Ahead of protein and antibody engineering conference PEGS Europe 2024 in Lisbon, DDW’s Megan Thomas looks at what to expect from each track of the annual biologics technology meeting. from engineered peptide and antibody libraries’. Harriman will present ‘Discovering functional modulators of the ion channel Kv1.3

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Broad Institute

JUNE 27, 2024

To deliver CHARM throughout the brain, the team collaborated with scientists in the lab of Ben Deverman , senior director of vector engineering at the Broad and a co-author of the study. They used an engineered adeno-associated virus (AAV) that crosses the blood-brain barrier after intravenous administration.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Each T cell expresses a TCR specific for an HLA‑presented peptide signal, and when that signal is detected a T cell expressing the relevant TCR can launch a complex array of immune effector responses that can suppress or destroy tumours or virus-infected cells. Many potential candidate antigens are under consideration.

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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. A recent paper in BioDesign Research , CRISPR-Cas-Based Engineering of Probiotics , from investigators at several Chinese research institutions, contributed to the report.

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Broad Institute

AUGUST 11, 2022

In the new study, they homed in on a handful of these genes encoding enzymes that are members of the STAND ATPase family of proteins, which in eukaryotes are involved in the innate immune response. The cells underwent a dramatic defensive response and survived. The finding was striking and unprecedented.

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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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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 20, 2020

BT-001 is a best-in-class oncolytic Vaccinia virus. platform and its patented large-capacity VV cop TK-RR- oncolytic virus, which has been engineered to encode both a Treg-depleting human recombinant anti-CTLA4 antibody generated by BioInvent’s proprietary n-CoDeR ® /F.I.R.S.T LUND, Sweden and STRASBOURG, France , Dec.

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