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Moderna’s founder launches Laronde, promising new ‘Endless RNA’ drug class

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Flagship Pioneering, the VC fund run by Moderna’s co-founder Noubar Afeyan has launched a new biotech Laronde , with an ambitious plan to create a new class of drugs based on Endless RNA. The technology is designed to replace antibodies, which have become standard therapy in many diseases but are complicated and expensive to manufacture.

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Leading innovators in flavivirus vaccine components

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Within the emerging innovation stage, cell therapy for ocular disorders, coronavirus vaccine components, and DNA polymerase compositions are disruptive technologies that are in the early stages of application and should be tracked closely. The structural proteins include the capsid, pre-membrane/membrane proteins and envelope (E) proteins.

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HIV vaccines suffer setbacks but new approaches could turn the tide

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Since HIV integrates with the DNA, eliminating the virus from the body is very difficult, explains David Montefiori, PhD, director of the Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine Research and Development at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The failure of several late-stage trials highlights the challenging nature of HIV vaccine development.

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

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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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Investment fuels AI-driven development of breakthrough genomic medicines

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The payload, Del Bourgo tell us, is the therapeutic DNA or RNA sequence that will cure or fix damaged cells. Similar to how we injected mRNA into people to trigger an immune response and train their immune system against COVID-19, genomic medicine repairs cellular or molecular mechanisms that are dysfunctional and cause disease.”.

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What Innovative Treatments For Metastatic Breast Cancer are being developed?

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There are antibody drugs targetting those cells that are already FDA approved and there are antibody drugs still in trials. However, a combination of HER2-targeted antibody drugs and a chemotherapy drug can prove to be more potent. An enzyme involved in DNA repair can be the key to making chemotherapy more effective.

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Lilly Delivers Strong Second-Quarter 2021 Financial Results, Updates 2021 Financial Guidance

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Revenue growth was 12 percent when excluding effects of 2020 COVID-related stocking patterns, revenue from COVID-19 antibodies and recent business development. announced an exclusive collaboration focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of potential novel small molecules that stimulate tumor-specific immune responses.