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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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The Achilles’ heel of cancer

Drug Discovery World

Genoscience Pharma’s Philippe Halfon and Eric Raymond share their expertise on targeting the recycling of unsustainable production of palmitoylated cancer-associated proteins. Palmitoyl transferases are a zinc finger Asp-His-His-Cystype (ZDHHC) family containing 23 distinct mammalian genes (excluding ZDHHC10) that catalyse this reaction 1.

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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 test targets antibodies against the spike protein. 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.

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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

Using its novel yeast display system and large diverse human antibody libraries, AvantGen has identified a panel of high affinity human monoclonal antibody clones that bind to two distinct epitopes on the receptor binding domain of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. These findings have been published in Frontiers in Immunology ( [link] ).

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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

Among them, mutations E484K, N501Y and del 69-70 are located in the spike protein, the region that enables the virus to attach to and enter the human cell. 1.351 carries another spike mutation E484K, which appears to evade the body’s immune response, possibly diminishing vaccine efficacy. 1.1.7), South Africa (B.1.351),

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COVID-19 Pandemic Coverage

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“Vaccine Nationalism” Could Prove the Undoing of COVID-19 Containment. The company’s candidate vaccine, mRNA-1273, is a synthetic messenger RNA that encodes the stabilized SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. By the end of August, the World Health Organization (WHO) counted 33 vaccine candidates in some stage of clinical trial evaluation.