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A surprising new role for a major immune regulator

Broad Institute

A surprising role STING (short for stimulator of interferon genes) is considered one of the major factors that triggers the immune response in the context of infection, autoimmunity, and cancer. Food and Drug Administration has not approved any STING agonist thus far, although multiple clinical trials are currently underway.

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Gamma delta T cells: a rising star in cancer therapy

Drug Target Review

Preclinical research on γδ T cells has made great strides since the cells were first identified in the 1980s, with γδ T-cell therapies from several companies, including IN8bio, now in or nearing clinical trials for various cancers. gammadelta T cells link innate and adaptive immune responses. Cells 9(40):800 (2020).

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

1 Yet even after more than two decades of research, media hype, and dozens of clinical trials and biotech start-ups that have come and gone, phage therapy has not scaled. No phage-based therapeutic has reached the latter stages of the clinical trial pipeline (where promising results lead to an expanded trial involving thousands of patients).

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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

The Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 serology test can be used to quantitatively measure antibodies in people who have been exposed to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and can play an important part in characterising a vaccine-induced immune response. said Thomas Schinecker, CEO Roche Diagnostics.

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A Look Back

Dark Matter Blog

The only subject in school that held my interest was biology. As soon as I learned about DNA and RNA, I wanted to be a molecular biologist. I wanted to use molecular biology to create drugs. As any good idea tends to have a long life, Ad-IFN is currently in a phase 3 clinical trial in mesothelioma patients.

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Differentiated therapies: unlocking stem cell medicine with epigenetics

Drug Target Review

Aside from the ethical questions they raise, ESCs are in limited supply and are generally recognised as foreign by the recipient patients immune system. This can trigger an immune response that causes the body to reject these therapeutic cells. Progress in molecular biology and translational science [Internet].