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UK university partnership wins £1.8m for drug discovery research

Drug Discovery World

Membrane proteins are crucial molecules on the surface of cells with numerous biological functions, such as sensing hormones or cell communication. The top ten selling medicines worldwide and multiple vaccines, including those for Covid-19, hepatitis B and whooping cough, target membrane proteins.

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Advancements in upstream CLD for enhanced biotherapeutics production

Drug Discovery World

Engineering of Chinese hamster ovary cell lipid metabolism results in an expanded ER and enhanced recombinant biotherapeutic protein production. He has a post-doctorate in virology, viral pathogenesis, viral vector development, and vaccines evaluation from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in Virology/Molecular Biology.

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Driving efficiency across upstream bioprocess workflow

Drug Target Review

With more than 20 years of experience in business management, strategy, marketing and product management, Anis also has a research background in biotech, pharmaceutical and premier academic organisations. Anis also serves on the scientific and editorial advisory board of Genetic Engineering News at Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Biotechnol Prog.

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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. mRNA is a molecule made up of a single strand of ribonucleic acid (RNA).

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Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to F. William Studier for development of widely used protein- and RNA-production platform

Broad Institute

His T7 expression technology can be used to make large quantities of nearly any RNA or protein and has been for decades, and continues to be, a mainstay of biomedical research and pharmaceutical production. There’s not a single molecular biology or biochemistry lab I know that doesn’t use T7.” and around the world.

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BioSpace Global Roundup: Cevec Licenses AAV Program to Biogen

The Pharma Data

The Phase II clinical trial will evaluate Ultimovacs’ proprietary universal cancer vaccine, UV1, in combination with AstraZeneca’s durvalumab and olaparib in patients with relapsed ovarian cancer. UV1 is a peptide-based vaccine inducing a specific T cell response against the universal cancer antigen telomerase. Mogrify – U.K.-based

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

Codon

Link Gene Expression & Regulation →Genetic regulatory mechanisms in the synthesis of proteins , by Jacob F. & Journal of Molecular Biology (1961). Link (Golden Gate assembly) Other Basic Methods & Cloning →Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology , by multiple authors. Nature (2011).

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