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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

XTalks

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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Delivering on the promise of gene editing

Drug Discovery World

While viral vectors can be highly active, they can lead to only transient expression (rAAV, AdV), can lead to adverse immune responses (AdV) or can integrate randomly into the genome (LV). Each comes with its own drawbacks, including immunogenicity, size restrictions, and off-target effects 6.

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Tezepelumab NAVIGATOR Phase 3 Trial Met Primary Endpoint Of A Statistically Significant And Clinically Meaningful Reduction In Exacerbations In A Broad Population Of Patients With Severe Asthma

The Pharma Data

Specifically, tezepelumab targets and blocks TSLP, a key epithelial cytokine that sits at the top of multiple inflammatory cascades and initiates an overreactive immune response to allergic, eosinophilic and other types of airway inflammation associated with severe asthma. EMJ Allergy Immunol. 2018; 3: 60-9. J Allergy Clin Immunol.

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