pharmaphorum

JANUARY 10, 2023

Since then, the two partners have developed multiple AI-based applications including a platform for selecting neoantigens for use in individualised cancer vaccines and an early warning system for high risk SARS-CoV-2 variants based on how well they can evade the immune system and their transmissibility.

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Cloudbyz

MARCH 6, 2024

Traditionally, pharmaceutical therapies have primarily consisted of small molecule drugs, commonly known as pills. This shift signifies not just a change in the way drugs are manufactured and administered, but also a fundamental transformation in the approach to treating diseases at their root cause.

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Find Me Cure

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Drugs and therapies under study are our hope for the future of healthcare, so taking the time to learn more about them is an investment in your future health as well as the background education you need to make informed decisions about your treatment. An enzyme involved in DNA repair can be the key to making chemotherapy more effective.

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Delveinsight

AUGUST 6, 2020

The Indian company informed that the DNA vaccine was well tolerated in the first stage of the adaptive phase 1/2 trial. ZyCoV-D is designed to introduce DNA that encodes for a viral protein into human cells. By ordering human cells to make the protein, ZyCoV-D could cause an immune response against the coronavirus.

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Delveinsight

DECEMBER 13, 2020

alcohol, certain drugs) and autoimmune diseases can also cause hepatitis. The first approved treatment for hepatitis C was a series of protein-based injections called recombinant interferon-alfa (IFNa). 2b) was developed to maintain a steady level of an active drug and reduce the frequency of administration.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 29, 2024

DNA purification “Plasmid DNA is an incredibly important part of molecular biology”, says Hummersone. We are now looking at larger plasmid DNA sequences to carry more genetic material, and so we can get a more delicate endpoint with a much larger plasmid DNA sequence. That’s not the case in CGT.”

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Roots Analysis

MAY 21, 2024

Over the last decade, one of the major challenges faced by pharmaceutical companies across the globe is low drug solubility. In fact, it has been observed that around 40% of the pharmaceutical drugs approved by regulatory organizations exhibit poor bioavailability / solubility.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Messenger RNA vaccines contain nucleic acids that code for a specific protein, or target antigen, related to a virus or disease. When an mRNA vaccine is administered, a patient’s body produces that protein to prompt a desired immune response. million in funding to support this work.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 11, 2023

Kerstin Pohl , Senior Global Marketing Manager, Gene Therapy & Nucleic Acid at SCIEX, looks at the application of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry for analysing host cell proteins. Host cell proteins (HCPs) – proteins derived from the host cells used for viral production—are one class of process-related impurities.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 30, 2023

From antibody-drug conjugates and RNA, to CRISPR and CAR-T therapy, DDW asked the drug discovery industry what the most important development in oncology over the last five years has been. Immunopheresis is a ‘subtractive therapy,’ in contrast to alternative drugs that constitute ‘additive’ therapies.

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XTalks

MAY 17, 2024

The vaccine used a ‘mosaic’ approach, designed to trigger immune responses against a wide variety of HIV strains globally. A study arm of the trial also compared an oral drug formulation of PrEP, a medication that people at risk for HIV take to prevent getting HIV from sex or injection drug use, to an existing standard.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Ahead of protein and antibody engineering conference PEGS Europe 2024 in Lisbon, DDW’s Megan Thomas looks at what to expect from each track of the annual biologics technology meeting. Ali Madani, PhD, Founder and CEO, Profluent Bio, on: ‘Protein engineering with large language models’.

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

There’s no doubt that cell and gene therapies present some of the most exciting opportunities for emerging drugs. Among these include Zolgensma, Novartis’ gene therapy drug for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), which made headlines in the UK for its £1.79 million price point per dose.

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 1, 2023

1 August was first chosen as World RNA Day in 2018 as a play on AUG (adenine, uracil and guanine), a triple sequence of RNA (called a codon) that initiates protein synthesis by the cell. Since then, it has been observed to publicise the importance of this molecule in the generation of proteins in the body.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 17, 2023

DDW Editor Reece Armstrong speaks to Benedikt Nilges , Head of Technology and Data Analytics at OMAPiX about spatial biology’s use in drug discovery and bettering our understanding of disease. This limits its efficacy in later stages of drug development or in the discovery and characterisation of biomarkers.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 14, 2023

He is being recognised for his celebrated contributions to the understanding and targeting of pancreas cancer metastasis, including work that has assisted with the development of minnelide, a pro-drug of triptolide for the treatment of pancreas and gastrointestinal cancers that is currently in Phase II clinical trials.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Bryan Oronsky , Chief Development Officer at EpicentRx, discucsses how one drug sourced from the defense and aerospace industry, could have many potential disese targets. Figure 1: RRx-001 is one drug with many targets.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Simultaneously, the capacity to conjugate fluorescent molecules to proteins to better characterise biological systems has evolved accordingly, enabling the proliferation of highly specific tools to interrogate cells. Titration is especially important when using viability dyes (e.g. Future directions . Volume 23 – Issue 4, Fall 2022.

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 15, 2022

These platforms all induce double strand cuts in the chromosomal DNA that can be sealed by the cell, leading to a specific gene disruption, or resulting in a new target site for inserting DNA segments. Reduce/eliminate chromosomal disruptions caused by double-strand DNA breaks. In one example, Choi et al.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In the cancer space alone over the last five years, clinical trials have increased 500% for new drugs and new drug combinations. New classes of therapies have added to this growth, including immune checkpoint inhibitors and genome targeted therapies. In pursuit of this, the number of new therapeutics in development has boomed.

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The Pharma Data

APRIL 7, 2023

Imfinzi Imfinzi (durvalumab) is a human monoclonal antibody that binds to the PD-L1 protein and blocks the interaction of PD-L1 with the PD-1 and CD80 proteins, countering the tumour’s immune-evading tactics and releasing the inhibition of immune responses.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 3, 2021

The company and Incyte announced the FDA will not meet the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) action date for the supplemental new drug application (sNDA) for baricitinib for the treatment of adults with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis. The delay is related to the FDA’s ongoing assessment of JAK inhibitors.

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XTalks

MARCH 10, 2021

Along with COVID-19 vaccine authorizations, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) remains committed to increasing access to COVID-19 tests and supporting their development, having authorized three new tests recently for emergency use. The products encompass molecular, antigen and T cell-based testing approaches.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 27, 2020

The drug, Yeliva (opaganib) is a first-in-class, oral spingosine kinase-2 (SK2) selective inhibitor with triple-action effect on the pathophysiological processes linked to COVID-19. The drug is a humanized IgG4 monoclonal antibody that blocks CCR5 and is being developed for COVID-19, HIV and metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This helps ensure a high concentration of loaded capsids and adequate removal of impurities, such as host cell proteins and DNA. The threat of empty capsids Capsids are the protein shell that would usually enclose the genetic material of a virus. A crucial part of the AAV workflow is the purification of viral vectors.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 14, 2020

(Nasdaq: TNXP) (Tonix or the Company), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the first participant was enrolled in the observational PRECISION study (TNX-C002), to examine the immune responses to COVID-19 in healthy volunteers who have recovered from COVID-19 or were asymptomatic. About TNX-1800.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 20, 2020

It is an optimized, non-chemically modified mRNA that codes for the prefusion stabilized full-length spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Pfizer and BioNTech announced additional data on neutralizing antibody and T-cell responses from their Phase I/II trial of their COVID-19 vaccine conducted in Germany.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 26, 2022

With the option to medicate with pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the chance of transmitting HIV from sex or drug use through injection has also been greatly reduced. At a basic level, the virus’s protein ‘coat’ and the enzymes it uses to gain control of the host cell’s DNA mutate frequently, making it difficult to target with therapeutics.

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The Pharma Data

JUNE 30, 2021

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in July 2018 for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients 12 years and older with MSI-H or dMMR mCRC that has progressed following treatment with fluoropyrimidine, oxaliplatin and irinotecan. Opdivo plus Yervoy received approval from the U.S. About Opdivo.

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XTalks

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The company’s candidate vaccine, mRNA-1273, is a synthetic messenger RNA that encodes the stabilized SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. The University of Oxford/AstraZeneca partnership, in turn, is testing a viral-vectored coronavirus vaccine that again expresses the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 virus. Drugs and Vaccines.

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