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World AIDS Day 2023: New and Promising Treatments for HIV/AIDS

XTalks

New FDA-Approved Treatments For HIV HIV treatment involves the administration of combined antiretroviral therapy (ART) to effectively suppress the viral load, maintain or enhance immune function and reduce the risk of opportunistic infections and cancers commonly associated with HIV. aiming to end the HIV epidemic by 2030.

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What Innovative Treatments For Metastatic Breast Cancer are being developed?

Find Me Cure

There are antibody drugs targetting those cells that are already FDA approved and there are antibody drugs still in trials. An enzyme involved in DNA repair can be the key to making chemotherapy more effective. PARP inhibitors work by blocking the function of the PARP enzyme, thus preventing the repair of the tumour DNA.

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Evolution in Hepatitis B and C Virus: Can we expect success similar to Hepatitis C in Hepatitis B as well?

Delveinsight

In July 2017, the US FDA approved sofosbuvir/velpatasvir/voxilaprevir? In August 2017, the US FDA approved glecaprevir/pibrentasvir (Mavyret) to treat adults with HCV genotypes 1-6 without cirrhosis (liver disease) or with mild cirrhosis, including patients with moderate to severe kidney disease and those who are on dialysis.

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World RNA Day: What impact RNA it had on drug discovery?  

Drug Discovery World

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

Pharmaceutical Technology

326 days after SARS-CoV-2 was first sequenced, the FDA approved Pfizer and BioNTech’s Comirnaty® under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). Messenger RNA vaccines contain nucleic acids that code for a specific protein, or target antigen, related to a virus or disease. million in funding to support this work.

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Covid-19 vaccine success bolsters nanoparticle drug delivery research

Pharmaceutical Technology

Since then, the field of nanomedicine has steadily progressed to reach high points such as the successful use of nanotechnology to deliver messenger RNA (mRNA)-based Covid-19 vaccines. Covid-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer /BioNTech, which use lipid nanoparticles, became the only two FDA-approved vaccines for almost all ages.