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Combination treatment could be more effective for cat allergy

Drug Discovery World

New research has shown that standard cat allergy treatment can be enhanced to make it more effective and faster acting, and the benefits last for a year after treatment ends. The findings of the study, supported by the National Institutes of Health, were published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. .

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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

XTalks

Canadian clinical-stage biotech company Symvivo Corporation has developed an oral COVID-19 vaccine that entered clinical trials this week. The first healthy volunteer was dosed with the vaccine in Australia as part of the bacTRL-Spike COVID-19 Phase I clinical trial. BacTRL Gene Therapy Platform.

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Keeping tabs on Covid-19: Cell and gene clinical trials advance despite Covid-19…

The Pharma Data

The governing body claims this proposal could have positive effects on mitigating burdensome requirements for gene therapy clinical trials in the future. In this light, Pharma IQ’s weekly round-up focuses on advancing therapies and clinical trials to combat Covid-19.

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Gene therapy offers potential cure to children born without an immune system

Scienmag

Study shows treatment developed by international team restored immune function in more than 95% of patients in three clinical trials Credit: Ann Johansson/UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center An experimental form of gene therapy developed by a team of researchers from UCLA and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London has successfully treated 48 of 50 (..)

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Inhibitor of KRAS gene mutation shows promise in lung, bowel and other solid tumors

Scienmag

Latest results from KRYSTAL-1 early clinical trial of adagrasib (MRTX849) Credit: Pasi A. Jänne New results from early clinical trials of a drug that targets a cancer-causing mutation in the KRAS gene have shown that it can shrink tumours and is well-tolerated by patients.

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Moderna’s Covid-19 shot gets Australian TGA provisional approval for kids

Pharmaceutical Technology

According to positive interim data from the Phase II/III KidCOVE clinical trial, the vaccine offered a strong neutralising antibody response in children of the age group of six months to five years following administration of the two-dose initial regimen of the mRNA-1273 vaccine.

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Zydus starts Phase II COVID-19 vaccine trial; Taysha raises $95M; FDA declines DBV’s peanut allergy patch; Combating COVID-19 with decoy target

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Zydus starts phase 2 COVID-19 vaccine trial after clearing safety test. Zydus Cadila has finished a phase 1 clinical trial of its COVID-19 vaccine ZyCoV-D, setting it up to move straight into a 1,000-subject phase 2 study. Taysha raises USD 95 Million to take 4 CNS gene therapies into the clinic.