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COVID prompts another milestone, as India clears first DNA vaccine

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The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the development of mRNA-based vaccines, and its influence has now extended to DNA-based shots as well, with Zydus Cadila’s ZyCoV-D getting emergency use authorisation in India. Proponents of the approach claim that DNA vaccines may have advantages over other technologies like mRNA.

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Accelerating recombinant protein vaccine discovery

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Especially for rapidly-mutating viruses (such as SARS-CoV-2), tools that can help inform the rapid development of vaccines are crucial in being better prepared for future health crises. Unlike other types of vaccines that use viral genetic codes or viral vectors, recombinant protein vaccines use only the antigenic proteins themselves.

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Q&A with Mark Garner: The golden age of cancer research  

Drug Discovery World

Global Cancer Segment Market Manager at Agilent Technologies, recently sat down with DDW Editor Reece Armstrong to tell us about the developments in the ‘golden age’ of cancer research. For example, if a patient’s tumour has a particular protein present, called a checkpoint protein, this will reduce the response of T-cells.

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How single-use technologies can improve antibodies production  

Drug Discovery World

Ultimately, we owe it to patients to work together and come up with new and innovative manufacturing as well as process development approaches to accelerate the development and achieve speed to clinic. RA: In recent years, what improvements have we seen to cell-line engineering for antibodies?

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Global advances in synthetic biology

Drug Discovery World

The rapidly growing area of synthetic biology – including molecular biology, biotechnology, biophysics, and genetic engineering – is having a marked impact on the drug discovery landscape. However, the development of drugs takes decades which is too long for most biotech start- ups looking for fast-track drug development programs.

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Leading innovators in transcription factors for AAV for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

Within the emerging innovation stage, cell therapy for ocular disorders, coronavirus vaccine components, and DNA polymerase compositions are disruptive technologies that are in the early stages of application and should be tracked closely. There are two main genes in the AAV genome, rep and cap, which encode nine different proteins.

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Leading innovators in gene splicing using nucleases for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

Within the emerging innovation stage, cell therapy for ocular disorders, coronavirus vaccine components, and DNA polymerase compositions are disruptive technologies that are in the early stages of application and should be tracked closely. Nucleases are enzymes that hydrolytically cleave the phosphodiester backbone of DNA.