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Could a modified cold sore virus cure brain cancer?

Drug Discovery World

A team of scientists in the US and the UK are combining a genetically modified cold sore virus with a cancer vaccine to treat an aggressive type of brain cancer in children. The researchers will use a genetically engineered herpes simplex virus type 1 to eliminate cancer cells. million of funding for this research project.

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Research reveals an immune cell that can kill all cancers

Drug Discovery World

Researchers in the US have discovered that a type of immune cell in the human body known to be important for allergy and other immune responses can also attack cancer. In the future, these cells could be manufactured, preserved by freezing, and then administered to patients.

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Researchers design gene therapy that can effectively target glioblastoma

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

To convert this immunosuppressive environment into one amenable to an immune response, investigators engineered a novel oncolytic virus that can infect cancer cells and stimulate an anti-tumor immune response.

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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. With over 1,000 different HBV-targeted antibodies in the mixture, GIGA-2339 is unlike any therapy currently in development.

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AI tool predicts new viral variants and could improve vaccines

Drug Discovery World

The scientists say the tool can help inform the development of vaccines and therapies for SARS-CoV-2 and other rapidly mutating viruses. EVEscape AI tool The AI tool has two elements: A model of evolutionary sequences that predicts changes that can occur to a virus, and detailed biological and structural information about the virus.

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Is Recent Gene Therapy Setback for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Déjà vu All Over Again?

PLOS: DNA Science

In the final chapter of my 2012 book The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It , I predicted that the technology would soon expand well beyond the rare disease world. Gene therapy clearly hasn’t had a major impact on health care, offering extremely expensive treatments for a few individuals with rare diseases.

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HIV combination regimen could lead to viral remission

Drug Discovery World

For this evaluation, participants underwent an analytical treatment interruption (ATI) in their antiretroviral therapy (ART) for up to 24 weeks. The data show that a higher proportion of HTI+VES-treated participants remained off ART for the full 24 weeks.