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Europe: Where is the drug discovery innovation?

Drug Discovery World

A more established Amsterdam-based enterprise is gene therapy company uniQure, developer of etranacogene dezaparvovec, the first gene therapy for haemophilia B, which was approved for use in the US in November 2022 and in the EU in February 2023. The rights for etranacogene dezaparvovec were subsequently sold to CSL Pharmaceuticals.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

Tom Ireland writes about the companies and technologies that are reimagining phage therapy. Soon after its publication, scientists, journalists, and investors were revisiting ‘phage therapy’ as a promising alternative to our failing antibiotics. Read it on our website here. Illustration by David S. Fast forward to 2023.

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Roche launches new quantitative antibody test to measure SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, to support the evaluation of vaccines

The Pharma Data

This is the focus of vaccines in development and convalescent plasma therapy. 1 Specifically, the test targets antibodies which are directed against the particular region of the viral spike protein responsible for binding to the host cell receptor, which is required for the virus to enter the host cell. Advances in Virus Research.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

Their cone cells, which are responsible for color vision, don’t work like normal. But what happens if you restore these cone cells, using gene therapy? in Current Biology. There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. In response, the U.S. From McKyton et al.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

Their cone cells, which are responsible for color vision, don’t work like normal. But what happens if you restore these cone cells, using gene therapy? in Current Biology. There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. In response, the U.S. From McKyton et al.