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World AIDS Day 2023: New and Promising Treatments for HIV/AIDS

XTalks

Over 26 weeks of Sunlenca combined with other antiretroviral drugs, 81 percent of participants achieved HIV RNA suppression, reaching levels low enough to be considered undetectable. The noteworthy candidate, EBT-101, is designed to eliminate HIV proviral DNA using CRISPR-Cas9 along with two guide RNAs (gRNAs).

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Join DDW for the SLAS2024 Ignite Theater ‘Innovation from lab to patient’

Drug Discovery World

He has founded and led three bio-AI technology companies, each of which led revolutions in medicine, genomics, agriculture, and conservation. Protein and RNA-based therapeutics development is a challenging multidimensional problem, accompanied by an equally challenging scalable manufacturing process.

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

Drug Discovery World

1 August was first chosen as World RNA Day in 2018 as a play on AUG (adenine, uracil and guanine), a triple sequence of RNA (called a codon) that initiates protein synthesis by the cell. Since then, it has been observed to publicise the importance of this molecule in the generation of proteins in the body.

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mRNA Therapeutics and mRNA Vaccines Industry: Current Scenario and Future Trends

Roots Analysis

The following points illustrate the key applications of mRNA therapeutics and vaccines: Allergy Tolerization Therapies: Plasmid DNA and mRNA vaccines that encode for allergens have been demonstrated to be capable of inducing T helper 1 cells and T regulatory responses, which, in turn, can modulate allergic reactions caused due to T helper 2 cells.

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SLAS2024: Day Two Highlights

Drug Discovery World

Scientific sessions Tuesday’s presentations spanned a range of topics, including functional genomics for target identification, next-generation proteomics, self-driving laboratories, the future of cell culture, and ‘lab on a particle’ technology.

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What Challenges Is the Vaccine Industry Facing When Dealing with the Flu and COVID-19?

XTalks

The Flu versus COVID-19: Virology and Vaccines SARS-CoV-2 versus Influenza Virology Viruses contain genetic material that can either be RNA or DNA. Both influenza and SARS-CoV-2 have RNA as their genetic material. An RNA genome enables the genetic material to mutate more rapidly.

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2020 Year in Review: COVID-19, CRISPR and Immunotherapies Define the Year for the Life Sciences

XTalks

From isolating SARS-CoV-2 in early January to sequencing its genome shortly thereafter and having a prototype vaccine against it within days, scientific process and progress have held steadfast throughout the pandemic. Infectious disease expert, epidemiologist and director of the Yale Institute for Global Health at Yale University, Saad B.