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Case study: gget’s new Open Target module

The Open Targets Blog

gget ( [link] ) is a free, open-source command-line tool and Python package designed to enable efficient querying of large genomic databases, such as Ensembl, UniProt, and NCBI. We chatted to the team about the module, and how it facilitates access to Open Targets Platform data. What is gget?

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Unveiling neoantigen-directed cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

Within the collaboration, Adaptive is responsible for end-to-end preclinical TCR discovery. As part of the TCR discovery process and preclinical data package, Adaptive performs rigorous functional characterisation and safety assessments of potent, therapeutic grade antigen-specific TCRs.

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FDA Returns Disappointing News for ALS Stem Cell Therapy

PLOS: DNA Science

If MSCs come from the patient (autologous), then an immune response shouldn’t be a hindrance. Might MSCs introduced into a patient’s spinal fluid somehow “know” to divide and develop into the needed motor neurons? Or secrete neurotrophic factors right where they’re needed?

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Novavax COVID-19 vaccine demonstrates 90% overall efficacy and 100% protection against moderate and severe disease in PREVENT-19 Phase 3 trial

The Pharma Data

NVX-CoV2373 was created using Novavax’ recombinant nanoparticle technology to generate antigen derived from the coronavirus spike (S) protein and is formulated with Novavax’ patented saponin-based Matrix-M adjuvant to enhance the immune response and stimulate high levels of neutralizing antibodies. efficacy against the B.1.351

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New insights into the role of viral capsids in gene therapy safety

Drug Target Review

2 However, utilisation of biological systems introduces variability and by-products, as well as a challenge unique to AAV production: the assembly of full capsids with correctly packaged DNA, partially filled capsids containing partial vector and/or host cell DNA, and empty capsids.

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Tonix Pharmaceuticals Enrolls First Participant in the PRECISION Study, an Observational Study to Facilitate Development of Precision Medicine Techniques for COVID-19 Vaccines and Therapeutics

The Pharma Data

(Nasdaq: TNXP) (Tonix or the Company), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the first participant was enrolled in the observational PRECISION study (TNX-C002), to examine the immune responses to COVID-19 in healthy volunteers who have recovered from COVID-19 or were asymptomatic.

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Regeneron’s COVID-19 Outpatient Trial Prospectively Demonstrates that REGN-COV2 Antibody Cocktail Significantly Reduced Virus Levels and Need for Further Medical Attention

The Pharma Data

“We continue to see the strongest effects in patients who are most at risk for poor outcomes due to high viral load, ineffective antibody immune response at baseline, or pre-existing risk factors. Yancopoulos , M.D., President and Chief Scientific Officer of Regeneron. Regeneron has shared these results with the U.S.

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