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Spirulina’s role in shaping the future of preventative biologics

Drug Target Review

Traditional biologics often involve recombinant protein expression in mammalian cells or microbes like E. Finrow notes that their intellectual property strategy required new types of patents and trade secrets, as spirulina-based therapies had not been fully explored in the biotech space.

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Caffeic acid?grafted chitooligosaccharides downregulate MAPK and NF?kB in RAW264.7 cells

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

The results showed that CA-COS inhibited nitric oxide (NO) production and downregulated the gene expression of nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), and cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), IL-1β, and IL-6 without cytotoxic effect.

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The Future of Drug Discovery: Tackling the Undruggable with New Biotechnologies

DrugBank

For example, PROTACs targeting STAT3, a protein crucial for tumor growth, have shown promise where conventional therapies have failed. Similarly, PROTACs can target and degrade overexpressed proteins, offering a way to overcome drug resistance, a common issue in cancer treatment.

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Women in Stem with Dr Beate Mueller-Tiemann

Drug Target Review

A pivotal moment for me was when I realised that if I understood disease mechanisms on a molecular level, I could be part of an industry that helps develop medicines/therapies for those who need them most. I loved learning how to explain at the molecular level what was happening in nature, in human beings and disease settings.

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Five Promising Treatment Areas in Early-Phase Drug Development in 2024

Alta Sciences

Psychedelics Psychedelic therapy (or psychedelic-assisted therapy) refers to the use of psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin, MDMA, LSD, ketamine, and ayahuasca, to treat mental disorders, especially those that have no effective treatments available or are treatment resistant.

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Biopharma Money on the Move: December 2 – 8

The Pharma Data

Since partnering with Eli Lilly to produce the first monoclonal antibody therapy approved for mild-to-moderate COVID-19 patients, antibody discovery company AbCellera is going big on the Nasdaq. BioAge is on the cusp of taking pilot therapies BGE-117 and BGE-175 into clinical trials, targeting the first half of 2021. Noema Pharma .

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Protalix BioTherapeutics and Chiesi Global Rare Diseases Announce Extension of PDUFA Date for Pegunigalsidase Alfa for the Proposed Treatment of Fabry Disease

The Pharma Data

NYSE American: PLX) (TASE: PLX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, production and commercialization of recombinant therapeutic proteins produced by its proprietary ProCellEx ® plant cell-based protein expression system, and Chiesi Global Rare Diseases, a business unit of Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A.,

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