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Keeping tabs on Covid-19: UK firm tests oral delivery of Covid-19 vaccine and Novavax aims to distribute 51 million vaccines to Australia

The Pharma Data

As research developments into RNA vaccines help scientists accelerate drug candidates to arm the immune system against coronavirus, Pharma IQ ’s Keeping tabs on Covid-19 update returns with news from some of the biotechnology innovators leading the fight against the global pandemic.

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ImmunityBio’s hAd5 T-Cell COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Shows Complete Protection of Airways in Non-Human Primates

The Pharma Data

The vaccine targeted both the inner nucleocapsid (N) and the outer spike (S) proteins of the virus to maximize the immune response. The study showed this broad immune response led to the complete clearance of the virus in a matter of days after infection of previously-vaccinated primates. link] 1. About ImmunityBio.

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Strong immune responses seen in adults of all ages

The Pharma Data

The interim results from the phase 2 trial on the vaccine, published today, on the contrary, showed a “ strong neutralizing antibody response” ? The companies also noted a high immune response after a single dose of the shot in patients with prior infection, indicating, they said, strong booster potential for the jab. “

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Women in Stem with Dr Christine Schuberth-Wagner

Drug Target Review

Our research demonstrated that GDF-15 acts as a versatile tool for tumours to inhibit the mounting of an effective antitumoral immune response at various steps of its process, including antigen presentation, immune cell activation, and their migration and infiltration into the tumour. in North America) in late 2017.

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Can Global Genomic Surveillance Forecast the Next Pandemic?

PLOS: DNA Science

The government recently evicted him from his lab, part of the crackdown on anything having to do with the “lab leak” hypothesis. As soon as the initial RNA genome sequence of the pathogen that would be named SARS-CoV-2 was published, CDC and other organizations began developing diagnostic tests.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

A LEGO robot , made by undergraduate students at Arizona State University, pours sucrose gradients (a tube with dense liquid at the bottom, and less dense liquid at the top), which are used to separate, say, proteins from RNA by spinning them really fast in centrifuges. How do transcription factors couple up with the correct RNA molecule?

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

A LEGO robot , made by undergraduate students at Arizona State University, pours sucrose gradients (a tube with dense liquid at the bottom, and less dense liquid at the top), which are used to separate, say, proteins from RNA by spinning them really fast in centrifuges. How do transcription factors couple up with the correct RNA molecule?