Broad Institute

JUNE 27, 2024

By Greta Friar, Whitehead Institute June 27, 2024 Images of a mouse brain show the effect of a technology called CHARM in turning off the expression of a gene in the brain. They used an engineered adeno-associated virus (AAV) that crosses the blood-brain barrier after intravenous administration. Online June 27, 2024.

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Drug Target Review

APRIL 5, 2024

Together, these attributes provide a strong foundation for protein expression with enough adaptability to produce much of the commercial and therapeutic protein market. The first concern is microbial contamination. CDMOs must routinely test throughout CLD to ensure cell cultures are free of microbes.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 16, 2021

During challenge with the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, animals vaccinated with CV2CoV were found to be better protected based on highly effective clearance of the virus in the lungs and nasal passages. Clearance of the virus in the lungs and nasal passages of the animals was tested following challenge infection with the original virus.

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Drug Target Review

MAY 22, 2024

Secondly, circRNAs can be engineered for more efficient protein expression by carefully selecting and optimising the IRES element, a sequence motif derived from viruses and used to initiate cap-independent translation from circRNA. What improvements in protein expression and durability have been demonstrated by the circVec 2.1

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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. Monoclonal Antibodies Monoclonal antibodies are lab-engineered immune system proteins.

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Codon

APRIL 9, 2023

LanzaTech announced a partnership with H&M Move to convert factory carbon emissions into fabrics using engineered microbes. Sponge cells double in population quite quickly — around 40 minutes — and could be engineered to manufacture drugs. Read Biological Engineering *Self-healable spider dragline silk materials.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 13, 2021

TNX-1500 is a third generation anti-CD40-ligand mAb that has been designed by protein engineering to decrease Fc?RII CD40-ligand is a protein expressed on the surface of activated T lymphocytes that mediates T cell helper function. Second generation anti-CD40-ligand mAbs had dramatically reduced binding to Fc?RII,

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