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The immune system’s role in lung cancer risk

Drug Target Review

HLA are the critical molecules that our immune systems use to present peptides to T cells and facilitate recognition and killing in immune responses to pathogens. HLA-II presents peptides to CD4 T cells thought to be important for indirectly helping immune responses and facilitating antibody production.

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Can Global Genomic Surveillance Forecast the Next Pandemic?

PLOS: DNA Science

That’s thanks to accelerated genome sequencing technologies, expanded laboratory capabilities, and interacting infrastructure on a global level. A Novel Virus Appears In retrospect, everything unfolded with astonishing speed. We’re still figuring out exactly how the virus travels from air to human respiratory tract.

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The Vaccine Development Landscape and Its Associated Challenges

DrugBank

These epitopes serve as the primary targets for the immune system, triggering a response that protects against future infection. For instance, the influenza virus is notorious for its ability to undergo antigenic drift, accumulating mutations in its surface proteins that can render existing vaccines less effective. 

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Unleashing the potential of lab-grown recombinant polyclonal antibodies

Drug Target Review

While current polyclonal antibody (pAb) therapies are derived from plasma, GigaGen has developed single-cell discovery and development platforms to produce diverse and potent recombinant pAb therapies that are made in the laboratory. It aims to clear HBsAg, to support HBV-specific immune responses and to achieve functional cure.

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Keeping tabs on Covid-19: Iceni Diagnostics creates new virus detection device and the RDIF announce its vaccine is more than 95 per cent efficient

The Pharma Data

UK firm develops solution for identifying whether patients are actually infectious from a virus or not. Iceni Diagnostics has revealed it is developing a new technology that can disclose if patients are actually infectious with a live virus or not. Read on to for the full insight.

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A therapy candidate for fatal prion diseases turns off disease-causing gene

Broad Institute

They used an engineered adeno-associated virus (AAV) that crosses the blood-brain barrier after intravenous administration. ZFPs are also common in human cells, meaning they are less likely to trigger an immune response against themselves than the bacterial Cas9.

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Defense-Forward Biosecurity

Codon

While reading all the sequences present in a sample, researchers want to find any that are out of place, such as those that belong to a never-before-seen virus. At least nine laboratories outside the U.S. This cleaning, annotation, and characterization work is all performed computationally.

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