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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Researchers report that all nine patients in a clinical trial being treated for stage III or IV clear cell renal cell carcinoma (a form of kidney cancer), generated a successful anti-cancer immune response after initiation of a personalized cancer vaccine.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

A strain of the bacterium harbored in the children's gut microbial communities possessed a previously unknown gene capable of producing and metabolizing key molecules involved in regulating many important functions ranging from appetite, immune responses, neuronal function, and the ability of pathogenic bacteria to produce disease.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

Stitching together four molecules found in the standard flu vaccine ensures an immune response to all of them, scientists have shown.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By adding synergistic self-adjuvanting properties to Covid-19 RNA vaccines, researchers showed they could significantly boost the immune response generated in mice.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

Immunotherapies, which mobilize the body's immune defenses against a cancer, have not been effective for GBM, in part because the tumor's surrounding environment is largely impenetrable to assaults from the body's immune system.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Now, an article challenges this hypothesis by showing that mice with high infectious exposures from birth have the same, if not an even greater ability to develop allergic immune responses than 'clean' laboratory mice.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JULY 12, 2023

Researchers have demonstrated that a transplant surgical procedure (called 'needle trauma') triggers a profound immune response and causes the death of most grafted dopamine neurons.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JULY 12, 2023

The finding upends 40 years of conventional wisdom and may offer new insights into cancer, viral infections and immune responses. They hijack a little-known piece of the cell's DNA repair function to close themselves into a ring-like shape and then create a matching double strand.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The most comprehensive map of the developing human thymus sheds light on how immune responses are built and maintained at early life, with implications for understanding and treating immunodeficiency, autoimmunity, and cancer.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The first peer-reviewed study in North America examining the timing between the first and second doses of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines shows that a longer dose interval leads to a stronger immune response. The study is funded by the Government of Canada through its COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF).

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Drug Target Review

JANUARY 23, 2024

Individualised cancer vaccines are tailored to each patient’s tumour, helping the immune system mount cancer-specific immune responses that can boost checkpoint inhibitor efficacy. Espen integrates clinical and research expertise as Director of Medical Affairs.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Some hereditary genetic defects cause an exaggerated immune response that can be fatal. Using the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool, such defects can be corrected, thus normalizing the immune response, as researchers led by Klaus Rajewsky from the Max Delbrück Center now report in “Science Immunology.”

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The Pharma Data

JULY 29, 2021

Loxo Oncology at Lilly, a research and development group of Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY), and Kumquat Biosciences today announced an exclusive collaboration focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of potential novel small molecules that stimulate tumor-specific immune responses.

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Broad Institute

JANUARY 19, 2024

By examining the genomes of bacteria collected from hundreds of people with persistent Salmonella infections, they discovered genetic mutations that both reduce the bacteria’s “virulence,” or ability to infect, and dampen the host’s immune responses, creating a kind of molecular camouflage that shields the bacteria from the immune system’s gaze.

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The Pharma Data

MAY 16, 2021

Adjuvanted recombinant COVID-19 vaccine candidate triggered strong neutralizing antibody responses in all adult age groups. High immune response after a single dose in patients with prior infection shows strong booster potential. For media and investors only. Issued: London UK. About the Phase 2 study. Sanofi, Empowering Life.

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Drug Target Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

1 Dr Ninh (Irene) La-Beck, from the Department of Immunotherapeutics and Biotechnology at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) Jerry H. The grant will enable her to investigate the interaction of nanoparticles with the immune system and cancer, supporting the development of new drug delivery systems.

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Broad Institute

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The drugs work by blocking a protein, PD-1 — which helps keep immune responses in check — and stimulating the immune system to attack tumors. The researchers soon partnered with Calico Life Sciences , which in collaboration with AbbVie , discovered drug candidates that block the PTPN2 protein.

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Drug Target Review

DECEMBER 27, 2023

This interaction inhibits inflammation and immune activation, and in particular prevents macrophages from phagocytosing and destroying cancer cells. By blocking CD24 with an antibody drug, our goal is to powerfully reactivate the anti-cancer immune response and drive therapeutic efficacy.

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JULY 11, 2024

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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Drug Target Review

APRIL 17, 2024

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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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Their research centres around a remarkable immune protein called IL-31, which not only induces itching but also plays a crucial role in regulating inflammation. In the absence of IL-31, these nerve cells failed to control the immune system, leading to unchecked inflammation.

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Broad Institute

JUNE 27, 2024

Science (2024) Related content New gene delivery vehicle shows promise for human brain gene therapy My Quest to Cure Prion Disease — Before It’s Too Late | Sonia Vallabh | TED Prion diseases lead to rapid neurodegeneration and death and are caused by misshapen versions of the prion protein in the brain. Credit: Neumann EN, Bertozzi TM, et al.

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PLOS: DNA Science

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The molecular tools of CRISPR were borrowed and developed from the natural immune response of bacteria to viruses – bacteriophages – that infect them. DNA Science recently covered perfumes resurrected from extinct plants, but using older and less precise recombinant DNA technology. appeared first on DNA Science.

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PerkinElmer

JANUARY 25, 2023

Laboratory professionals in all areas of science have experienced significant changes in recent years, and 2022 was no exception. Experts in the diagnostics and life sciences industry look back on 2022 and lend their insights on the major trends and technologies shaping laboratories in 2023.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

This is particularly pertinent in immune-based cell therapies like CAR-T, where animals do not mimic the human immune response. Nikki’s life sciences experience spans leadership, commercial and research roles. About the author Nikki Carter Commercial Organoid Innovation Director, Molecular Devices.

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PLOS: DNA Science

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Can they deliver healing genes without triggering an overactive immune response? The details are disturbingly reminiscent of the famous case of Jesse Gelsinger , who died from a ferocious immune response to experimental gene therapy in September 1999. An immune response is two-tiered.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

More recently, researchers have begun to look at conjugating immunomodulatory agents to antibodies to directly activate an immune response against the tumour. This approach – immune-stimulating antibody conjugates (ISACs) – uses a payload that stimulates the innate and adaptive immune responses, recruiting tumour-fighting T cells.

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MARCH 26, 2024

DGG: Resilience: In science, we can’t predict and control everything. Sometimes science “speaks” and sometimes it doesn’t. Teach them that they can make a difference while nurturing their skills in the sciences and mathematics. As a woman in STEM, what unique perspectives or strengths do you believe you bring to your work?

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Researchers from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) have used the reverse-blastocyst complementation (rBC) method to understand the conditions required to form lungs in rat-mouse chimeric models. They also used the tetraploid-based organ complementation (TOC) method to create a rat-derived lung in their mouse model.

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LifeSciVC

MAY 9, 2024

Take Janux Therapeutics, a biotech focused on developing immunotherapies that generate tumor-specific immune responses to attack and kill tumors without destroying a patient’s healthy tissue. While early, these data demonstrate clear promise to advance this modality.

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LifeSciVC

JULY 1, 2024

One thread that has run throughout it has been my passion for science as a lens for looking at the world. In particular, I love connecting science to daily life. Pfizer’s recent campaign around “ Science Will Win ” similarly appealed to the ethos of the power of science to help humanity. Build your social immunity.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 31, 2021

–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Gilead Sciences, Inc. While HIV treatment has advanced dramatically over the past three decades, people living with HIV still face a lifetime of therapy,” said Diana Brainard, MD, Senior Vice President, Virology Therapeutic Area, Gilead Sciences. About Gilead Sciences. Gilead Sciences, Inc.

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APRIL 15, 2022

At Pfizer, we apply science and our global resources to bring therapies to people that extend and significantly improve their lives. Further analysis will assess the persistence of neutralizing titers over time after a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine against the Omicron and wild-type strains.

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MAY 14, 2024

The combination of P1 with antiPD1 more efficiently activated innate and adaptive immune responses than either P1 or antiPD1 alone by re-energising T cell effector functions, thus providing the remarkable reduction of tumour growth in solid tumours and extended survival period.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

About AstraZeneca AstraZeneca (LSE/STO/NYSE: AZN) is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines, primarily for the treatment of diseases in three therapy areas – Oncology, Cardiovascular, Renal & Metabolism, and Respiratory & Immunology.

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APRIL 3, 2024

Making a little tangle of DNA visible to the eye and understanding that this is the basis of complex organisms, which might be altered in disease, was the defining moment for my future path in life sciences. Communication and networking are key in any career, with science being no exception.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

LSE/STO/NYSE: AZN) is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines, primarily for the treatment of diseases in three therapy areas – Oncology, Cardiovascular, Renal & Metabolism, and Respiratory & Immunology. About AstraZeneca.

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