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Targeted drug treatment leads tumor cells to imitate viral infection

Broad Institute

Reporting in Science , researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have made a surprising discovery about these drugs. They found that mIDH1 inhibitors trick the tumor cells into thinking they are infected with a virus, causing the immune system to mount an antiviral response.

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Sanofi and Translate Bio initiate Phase 1 clinical trial of mRNA influenza vaccine

The Pharma Data

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines global business unit of Sanofi and Translate Bio (NASDAQ: TBIO), a clinical-stage messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics company, have initiated a Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating an mRNA-based investigational vaccine against seasonal influenza. JUNE 22 , 2021.

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A Molecular Biologist’s Advice For Life

LifeSciVC

The central dogma of molecular biology is that information generally (with few exceptions) flows from DNA to RNA to Protein. Build your social immunity. The adaptive immune response identifies and responds to highly specific antigens associated with infections and cancer. Remember life’s Central Dogma.

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Understanding how macrophages direct tissue regeneration

Drug Target Review

Scientists from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the University of Kentucky have investigated how spiny mice can regenerate lost tissue. The Innate Immune Response to Infection [Internet]. They are using this new understanding to initiate regeneration in other types of mice, which could be translated into humans in the future.

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Johnson & Johnson’s One-Dose COVID Vaccine Promising in Early Trial

The Pharma Data

The vaccine produced an immune response of all 805 clinical trial participants within two months of inoculation, according to results published Jan. More than 90% of participants mounted an immune response within a month, and all had levels of neutralizing antibodies by day 57. WEDNESDAY, Jan. vaccination efforts.

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New “dictionary” of immune responses reveals far more complexity in the immune system than previously thought

Broad Institute

The reference, called the Immune Dictionary , appears today in Nature. Using single-cell RNA sequencing to analyze gene expression in individual cells, the researchers have found how 86 major cytokines affect 17 immune cell types in mice. For many immune-mediated diseases, there's no cure or treatment.

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Why brain cancer is often resistant to immunotherapy

Broad Institute

This study provides us with the data we need to create myeloid-targeting strategies to modulate these programs and make immunotherapies more effective for brain tumor patients, said Tyler Miller, co-first author on the study and a resident in clinical pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital when the study began.