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Discovery of protein’s role could improve cancer immunotherapies

Drug Discovery World

TIMP-1 is produced by dendritic cells, which are responsible for initiating immune responses and boosting the immune system’s ability to recognise and destroy cancer cells. The protein enhances antitumour immunity through self-stimulation and by activating surrounding immune cells.

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Recombinant polyclonal drug trial for HBV gets FDA green light

Drug Discovery World

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared GigaGen’s application to initiate a Phase I trial of its polyclonal drug for the treatment of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, GIGA-2339. It is the first recombinant polyclonal therapeutic in development to treat and functionally cure chronic HBV infection.

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Ginkgo Bioworks to discover and develop novel vaccine adjuvants 

Drug Discovery World

Licensing for human use Adjuvants are components of vaccines that help to enhance the magnitude, breadth, and duration of the immune response to vaccination.

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Clamp2 provides vaccine hope for future pandemics

Drug Discovery World

Associate Professor Keith Chappell, co-leader of UQ’s Rapid Response Vaccine Pipeline, said pre-clinical testing had shown the ‘Clamp2’ platform was meeting all expectations, producing stabilised antigens and inducing strong neutralising immune responses. “We Clamp technology .

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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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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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Omicron infection likely to protect against flu

Drug Discovery World

Dr Quinton Fivelman PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at London Medical Laboratory, says: “Finally, there may be a silver lining to the pandemic cloud. It seems a response from the body caused by fighting the Omicron variant also stops the influenza virus from replicating.

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