Drug Discovery World

JULY 29, 2022

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 researchers show in a report published July 27 in Nature that the links begin with a lipid—a fat—in A. muciniphila’s ability to manipulate the immune system and fight disease.

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Scienmag

JULY 7, 2021

Researchers have produced vaccine-like immune responses to a dangerous bacterium by colonizing 26 healthy volunteers with a related, but harmless, commensal bacterial species.

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XTalks

JANUARY 20, 2021

Researchers at KU Leuven in Belgium have found a potential mechanism underlying irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) that involves activation of immune cells primed by past gastrointestinal infections. The research findings were published in the journal Nature. Related: Monitoring Patients with IBS or Kidney Failure?

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

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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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Valneva has said it plans to accelerate research into its Lyme disease vaccine candidate VLA15, bringing forward a trial including children into the first quarter of 2021. VLA15 has demonstrated a promising immune response and safety data in pre-clinical and clinical studies so far.

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XTalks

JULY 28, 2021

Compared to Vaxneuvance’s targeting of 15 different strains of the bacterium, Pfizer’s shot protects against 20. While Merck’s previous shot, Pneumovax 23, defends against 23 serotypes and has been on the market for almost four decades, the immune responses it generates are not as durable as Prevnar 13.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Interim results of the trial show that all participants developed an antibody response after two doses of the COVID-19 adjuvanted vaccine candidate. Adjuvants are used to help stimulate stronger vaccine immune responses. These are very promising results. Plant-Based Vaccine Technology.

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