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Researchers design gene therapy that can effectively target glioblastoma

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

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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Feel Sick? Waiting at Least 2 Days Before COVID Test Is Best

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, June 26, 2024 -- The COVID virus, or rather people's immune response to it, has changed and it might be prudent to wait a couple days after symptoms start before taking a COVID test, researchers report.“For For COVID, we found that if you o.

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Second-Generation mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate, CV2CoV, Demonstrates Improved Immune Response and Protection in Preclinical Study

The Pharma Data

Better activation of innate and adaptive immune responses was achieved with CV2CoV, resulting in faster response onset, higher titers of antibodies, and stronger memory B and T cell activation as compared to the first-generation candidate, CVnCoV.

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Advancing vaccine design: potential of peptide mimicry

Drug Target Review

In a new development, a recent paper published in Biology Methods & Protocols by Oxford University Press has highlighted a promising avenue for enhancing vaccine efficacy against infectious pathogens like the COVID-19 virus. The role of extracellular vesicles in COVID-19 virus infection [Internet]. Available from: [link]

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Medicago Says COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Triggers Promising Immune Response | 2020-11-10

The Pharma Data

Canadian biopharmaceutical company Medicago has announced that its investigational COVID-19 vaccine generated “significant antibody and cellular immune responses” after two doses in all subjects in an early-stage clinical trial. The interim analysis from the phase 1 trial has been published online at the preprint server, medRxiv.

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The role of CRISPR in microbiome engineering breakthroughs

Drug Target Review

When faced with a viral threat, bacterial cells developed an immune response by capturing and copying DNA fragments of viruses. It was also discovered that the Cas enzyme was responsible for DNA cleavage. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) was first discovered in the genome of marine bacteria.

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The effectiveness of nanoparticles in chemotherapy

Drug Target Review

The use of nanoparticles, which are around the size of a virus particle, is a very promising delivery method for overcoming chemotherapy issues. Macrophages were detected as the cells responsible for these negative effects. On the other hand, some of these responses were bad.