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US researchers decipher how one gut bacterium influences immunity

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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. They also confirmed that the lipid helps maintain immune homeostasis.

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Valneva accelerates Lyme disease vaccine R&D project with Pfizer

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This investigational multivalent protein subunit vaccine targets the outer surface protein A (OspA) of the bacterium Borrelia that causes the disease, an established mechanism of action for a Lyme disease vaccine. VLA15 has demonstrated a promising immune response and safety data in pre-clinical and clinical studies so far.

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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

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Symvivo’s bacTRL Gene Therapy Platform is designed and optimized to address limitations associated with typical vaccines, including the inability to accommodate large or multiple genes, lack of specificity to targeted tissue and poor control over immune response, says the company.

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New Research Shows IBS Symptoms May be Caused by Gut Infections

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While diseases like celiac are associated with inappropriate activation of the immune system triggered by food antigens, this is not the case in IBS. In a normal, healthy intestine, foods do not trigger immune responses and so in a patient with IBS, something else must activate the response. Mouse and Human Studies.

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Shot in the arm for Affinivax as it challenges Pfizer’s Prevnar

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The shot also includes two “conserved” pneumococcal proteins – antigens that seem always to be present in the bacterium regardless of its serotype, so could potentially provide protection against an even broader range.

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GSK bolsters vaccines division with $3.3bn swoop on Affinivax

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With ASP3772, GSK could offer a shot with broader coverage of pneumococcal serotypes than any of its rivals, and which also includes two “conserved” pneumococcal proteins – antigens that seem always to be present in the bacterium regardless of its serotype.

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GSK to acquire clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company Affinivax, Inc.

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Affinivax’s most advanced vaccine candidate (AFX3772) includes 24 pneumococcal polysaccharides plus two conserved pneumococcal proteins (compared to up to 20 serotypes in currently approved vaccines). The bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae causes pneumococcal disease. About Pneumococcal disease.