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Meningitis vaccine comes to the forefront with impressive study results

Pharmaceutical Technology

The trial, conducted in 1,800 healthy individuals ranging from ages 2-29 years in Mali and The Gambia in 2021, found NmCV-5 induced a strong immune response across five strains of meningococcal bacteria. The response was more powerful than that generated by MenACWY-D – a licensed quadrivalent meningococcal vaccine marketed by GSK.

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Nirogy rises with $16.5M; Iterum presents a new drug application to FDA; Gut Bacteria proffer insight into molecules protection; TScan adds another $100M for cancer trials

Delveinsight

Gut Bacteria proffer insight into molecules protective against asthma and COVID-19. The researchers began by transplanting gut bacteria from an immune-deficient mouse model into normal mice and observing the animals’ immune systems.

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ADCs Pipeline Update: Avacta Partners with ADC Therapeutics

Roots Analysis

Currently, product licensing agreements, technology licensing agreements, research and development agreements and clinical trial agreements are the common types of partnerships inked by developers that are currently focused on the development of ADCs pipeline. In nature, they are made by a group of bacteria known as actinomycetes.

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Re-engineered enzyme could help reverse damage from spinal cord injury and stroke

Scienmag

A team of researchers at University of Toronto Engineering and University of Michigan have modified an enzyme from bacteria to promote regrowth of nerve tissue Credit: Hettiaratchi, O’Meara et al.,

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Can you take amoxicillin and metronidazole together?

Druggist

Licensed use. Metronidazole is the preferred antibiotics to prevent and treat infections caused by anaerobic bacteria. However, as with the treatment of other infections, bacteria became resistant to common antibiotics lime penicillins leading to the treatment’s failure. The answer to that question straightforward.

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Governments and pharma relationships and implications for antimicrobial resistance

Pharmaceutical Technology

As a result, multiple vaccines, including Pfizer /BioNTech’s mRNA vaccine, Comirnaty, were licensed for use within a year of development beginning. AMR occurs when disease-causing bacteria become resistant or immune to the antibiotics used to treat them. AMR is already the third leading cause of death worldwide, causing around 1.27

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World Tuberculosis Day 2024: New vaccines offer hope

Drug Discovery World

billion people estimated to be infected with the bacteria, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The day aims to raise awareness about the devastating health, social, and economic consequences of the disease. TB remains a global pandemic, with 1.8 This year’s theme is ‘Yes, we can end TB!’