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Enhancing gene therapy with Circio

Drug Target Review

Secondly, circRNAs can be engineered for more efficient protein expression by carefully selecting and optimising the IRES element, a sequence motif derived from viruses and used to initiate cap-independent translation from circRNA. What improvements in protein expression and durability have been demonstrated by the circVec 2.1

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The future outlook for mRNA therapies

Drug Discovery World

The biggest growth driver for mRNA therapeutics came from the Covid-19 pandemic, when mRNA-based vaccines proved effective in treating SARS-CoV-2, and pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna were successful in bringing these treatments to market.

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BioSpace Global Roundup: Cevec Licenses AAV Program to Biogen

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration gave it the green light to initiate a Phase III study of tesamorelin for the treatment of adults with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) with liver fibrosis. UV1 is a peptide-based vaccine inducing a specific T cell response against the universal cancer antigen telomerase. Mogrify – U.K.-based