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Breakthrough ‘nanobody’ technology boosts thrombosis research

Drug Discovery World

The research team, led by Professor Steve Watson and Dr Eleyna Martin, developed antibody fragments called nanobodies and crosslinked these to make ligands to four platelet receptors (GPVI, CLEC-2, FcɣRIIA and PEAR1). Reagents based on nanobodies will increase our understanding of platelet activation in the laboratory.

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Turning science into business: An optimised alternative to antibodies

Drug Discovery World

DS: What motivated you and Dr David Bunka, CTO, to create Aptamer and did you imagine you would one day be operating on such a global scale?    I quickly recognised the commercial value of aptamers as being able to address the gap in the market where antibodies fail to perform, and together we established the business to begin aptamer development.

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Reflecting on ELRIG’s Drug Discovery 2022 

Drug Discovery World

The DDW team spent 4-5 October, 2022 at ELRIG’s annual meeting, Drug Discovery 2022, which remains Europe’s largest meeting for life sciences industry professionals and took place at ExCel, London, UK. Drug Discovery 2022: The numbers . Drug Discovery 2022: The numbers . Of those delegates, 75% work in drug discovery.

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Fortis Life Sciences leads the way in custom antibody discovery

Drug Discovery World

In the ever-evolving landscape of therapeutic development, the role of antibodies has become increasingly apparent. Antibodies are used as therapeutics, components of therapeutics such as antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) and CAR-T cells, and as companion diagnostic tools. This article is sponsored by Fortis Life Sciences.

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Receptor Occupancy Assays by Flow Cytometry: Benefits for Clinical Trials

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Both the areas of drug development and clinical trials are increasingly using in vitro assays to help determine the efficacy of an investigational therapeutic. Among these is the receptor occupancy assay, which is a powerful method used to understand how a therapeutic drug binds to (or occupies ) its receptors on the surface of certain cells.

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Reflecting on PEGS Europe 2023 

Drug Discovery World

The company’s goal is to accelerate functional characterisation and shortenoptimisation time in antibody discovery and t-cell workflows. coli expression systems and is using high-throughput expression pipelines to screen constructs for optimal expression to generate protein and cellular reagents.

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The evolution of assays for immuno-oncology research

Drug Discovery World

Evolution of such defence mechanisms can lead to multi-drug resistance, further disease progression, and cancer metastasis. Cancer is a complex heterogenous multistep disease characterised by uncontrolled cell proliferation combined with a dysregulated immune response. This continues to be the standard of care.