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Clinical Trials for Celiac Disease: Insights from Beyond Celiac’s Kate Avery

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When a person with celiac disease eats something that contains gluten, their immune system attacks their small intestine, damaging the lining and interfering with the absorption of nutrients from food. As of now, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved any drugs for the treatment of celiac disease.

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This week in drug discovery (8-12 April) 

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The cancer research news has been coming thick and fast from the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in San Diego this week, so our Friday round-up focuses on drug discovery in oncology. The post This week in drug discovery (8-12 April) appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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HIV combination regimen could lead to viral remission

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AELIX Therapeutics has announced positive results from its randomised, placebo-controlled Phase IIa therapeutic HIV vaccine and immune modulator combination clinical trial. The trial also evaluated the efficacy of HTI vaccines in combination with VES to avoid, delay or contain viral rebound compared to a placebo group.

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AZ resumes trial of COVID-19 vaccine

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. AstraZeneca has confirmed that clinical trials assessing its Oxford University partnered coronavirus vaccine AZD1222 have resumed in the UK, following a green light by the Medicines Health Regulatory Authority (MHRA). Source link. Source link.

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MHRA approves Moderna’s bivalent Covid booster  

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Known as a bivalent vaccine, Spikevax was approved following data that show it triggers a strong immune response against both Omicron (BA.1) The booster dose was also found to generate a good immune response against the Omicron sub-variants BA.4 1) and the original 2020 strain 1. . References . 1: [link] .

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Latest Data from Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Involving B.1.351 Variant Shared by Protein Vaccine Maker

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As Novavax awaits emergency use authorization (EUA) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its protein-based COVID-19 vaccine NVX-CoV2373, the company shared new data this week on the vaccine’s efficacy against the South African B.1.351 These results came from data from Novavax’s Phase III UK trial where B.1.117

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Rome Therapeutics raises $77m for junk DNA-targeting drugs

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The Cambridge, Massachusetts biotech is focusing specifically on the 60% of DNA sequences that repeat themselves hundreds or thousands of times in the genome, known as the ‘repeatome’, that could contain targets for cancer and autoimmune disorders.

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