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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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The Indian company informed that the DNA vaccine was well tolerated in the first stage of the adaptive phase 1/2 trial. ZyCoV-D is designed to introduce DNA that encodes for a viral protein into human cells. By ordering human cells to make the protein, ZyCoV-D could cause an immune response against the coronavirus.

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World RNA Day: What impact RNA it had on drug discovery?  

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Dr Pirkko Muhonen, Senior Field Application Scientist, Nucleic Acid Therapeutics, at Thermo Fisher Scientific, shared what’s next for RNA-based medicine post-pandemic with DDW. This Phase I trial will test the experimental vaccine, known as H1ssF-3928 mRNA-LNP, for safety and its ability to induce an immune response.

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COVID-19 Pandemic Coverage

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These companies include Moderna, a US biotech company which has formed a partnership with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Oxford University who has partnered with AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Pfizer. China’s COVID-19 Vaccine: Sinovac Biotech and CanSino Biologics.

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The continued search for a cure to HIV

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At a basic level, the virus’s protein ‘coat’ and the enzymes it uses to gain control of the host cell’s DNA mutate frequently, making it difficult to target with therapeutics. The finding opens up the possibility of creating therapeutics that mimic the same response. Understanding the virus.