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The path to improved safety of gene-based products

Drug Discovery World

First, products containing undesired proteases can impair drug stability, either by degrading the drug itself or by degrading stabilising excipients of the drug formulation, which ultimately diminishes the drug’s durability. In the case of therapeutics, the aim is usually to avoid patients’ immune responses.

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Optimising AAV capsid purification through improved analytics

Drug Discovery World

This helps ensure a high concentration of loaded capsids and adequate removal of impurities, such as host cell proteins and DNA. In AAV therapeutics, empty capsids are those that are not packaged with the therapeutic DNA. Robustness: to be able to tolerate matrix effects (type of buffer, residual contaminants, ionic strength, etc.)

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COVID-19 Pandemic Coverage

XTalks

“Vaccine Nationalism” Could Prove the Undoing of COVID-19 Containment. It was recently reported that the addition of an adjuvant to their vaccine led to enhanced immune responses that exceeded responses in convalescent serum from symptomatic COVID-19 patients. That’s if Russia doesn’t get its hands on it first.