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Rensselaer team receives NIAID grant to develop antiviral drug for Covid-19

Pharmaceutical Technology

grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) unit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for developing a Covid-19 oral antiviral drug. award to researchers at Michigan State University to develop artificial intelligence algorithms that could predict crucial features with the evolution of viruses.

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8 Of The Most Common Foods Allergies – Do You Have One?

Delveinsight

As per the Food Allergy Research & Education, in the US, each year, around 200,000 people require emergency medical care for allergic reactions to food. Food allergy is a specific immune response to certain food items that it considers harmful. The symptoms of food allergy vary from person to person and can also differ over time.

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DBV craters on FDA’s peanut allergy immunotherapy rejection

pharmaphorum

DBV Technologies’ long and tortuous path to an FDA verdict on its Viaskin Peanut allergy shot has led to another dead end. The rationale behind Viaskin Peanut is to expose people with peanut allergy to small, rising amounts of peanut protein – which acts as an allergen – to encourage the immune system to develop tolerance over time.

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Asthma drug can block crucial SARS-CoV-2 protein

The Pharma Data

A drug used to treat asthma and allergies can bind to and block a crucial protein produced by the virus SARS-CoV-2, and reduce viral replication in human immune cells, according to a new study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). Targeting Nsp1 could therefore reduce the damage inflicted by the virus.

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SLAS2024 update: The technology behind nanoparticle-based vaccines

Drug Discovery World

Dr Masaru Kanekiyo On Tuesday 6 February at 11.30am, the speaker will be Masaru Kanekiyo, DVM, PhD, Investigator and Chief of Molecular Immunoengineering Section of the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH.

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Partake Foods Allergen-Friendly Snacks + Imagindairy Cow-Free Milk – Xtalks Food Podcast Ep. 50

XTalks

Food allergies are becoming more and more common, but that doesn’t mean those with allergies can’t enjoy a sweet treat. In this episode of the Xtalks Food Podcast, Sydney talks about Partake Foods, an allergen-friendly, better-for-you snack brand that offers cookies, baking mixes and other products in which everyone can partake.

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The Lancet Respiratory Medicine: Clinical trial finds inhaled immune response protein increases odds of recovery for hospitalised COVID-19 patients

Scienmag

Inhaled delivery of a formulation of a key protein involved in the immune response – interferon beta-1a – to hospitalised COVID-19 patients in the UK reduced the odds that they would develop severe disease or die from SARS CoV-2 infection.