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A protein-based COVID-19 vaccine that mimics the shape of the virus

The Pharma Data

Even as several safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines are being administered to people worldwide, scientists are still hard at work developing different vaccine strategies that could provide even stronger or longer-lasting immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants.

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AvantGen Announces Licensing of Its Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies to IGM Biosciences for COVID-19 Therapy Development

The Pharma Data

Xiaomin Fan, Founder, President and CEO of AvantGen, “Even with the recent Emergency Use Authorization of multiple vaccines, we believe there remains an urgent need for potent antibody therapies and prophylactics for immunocompromised patients who cannot mount an adequate immune response either to the vaccine or to subsequent viral infection.

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Roche launches new quantitative antibody test to measure SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, to support the evaluation of vaccines

The Pharma Data

The Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 serology test can be used to quantitatively measure antibodies in people who have been exposed to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and can play an important part in characterising a vaccine-induced immune response. The test targets antibodies against the spike protein.

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Lab to jab in 100 days: manufacturing flexibility for future rapid responses

Pharmaceutical Technology

According to CEPI: “Achieving the 100 Days Mission would give the world a fighting chance of containing a future outbreak before it spreads to become a global pandemic.”. billion towards the “pandemic-busting plan”, which involves the investigation of rapid response vaccine technologies. The UK Government is behind this effort.

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Roche launches SARS-CoV-2 variant test to help monitor emerging coronavirus mutations

The Pharma Data

1.351 carries another spike mutation E484K, which appears to evade the body’s immune response, possibly diminishing vaccine efficacy. The cobas SARS-CoV-2 Variant Set 1 Test is designed to detect key spike mutations in virus variants associated with increased human-to-human transmission. 1.1.7), South Africa (B.1.351), Variants of B.1.1.7,

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The Achilles’ heel of cancer

Drug Discovery World

Palmitoyl transferases are a zinc finger Asp-His-His-Cystype (ZDHHC) family containing 23 distinct mammalian genes (excluding ZDHHC10) that catalyse this reaction 1. Conformational changes in the Ras membrane proximal domain facilitate the phosphorylation of GDP to GTP and the kinase domain activation.

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Using bispecific antibodies to advance cancer immunotherapy

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The more targeted, bispecific functionality of bsAbs broadens the reach of antibody-mediated therapies against both solid and haematological cancers, creating novel approaches that can induce a tumour-specific immune response, target immune checkpoints, or improve payload delivery to tumour cells (Fig.