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US researchers decipher how one gut bacterium influences immunity

Drug Discovery World

A team led by researchers at HMS and the Broad has just accomplished the rare feat of connecting those dots for one important gut bacterium. The usual suspects for triggering an immune response would be a protein or a sugar,” said Clardy. You can change the bacterium and apply the same set of tests,” said Clardy.

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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. Most antibody drugs and vaccines have been developed to target parts of the spike protein. Innovations.

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Stanford researchers construct the most complete synthetic microbiome

Drug Discovery World

While scientists routinely silence a gene or remove a protein from a specific cell or even an entire mouse, there is no such set of tools to remove or modify one species among the hundreds in a given faecal sample. “So