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Rome Therapeutics raises $77m for junk DNA-targeting drugs

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Startup Rome Therapeutics has raised $77 million in second-round financing to help mine sequences of DNA – which were dismissed for years as ‘junk’ – for hidden treasure. Much of this repeatome is thought to derive from viruses that embedded in our DNA millions of years ago.

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Gene Therapy and Pharmacokinetics

Camargo

It is a comprehensive term which encompasses a large variety of therapy products including viral and bacterial vectors, plasmid DNA, human gene editing technology, and patient-specific cellular gene therapy. For example, it is beneficial to administer RNA treatments for some lung diseases directly to the disease site through inhalation.

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

XTalks

Over 26 weeks of Sunlenca combined with other antiretroviral drugs, 81 percent of participants achieved HIV RNA suppression, reaching levels low enough to be considered undetectable. Both trials concluded with maintained virologic suppression, and no clinically significant change from baseline in CD4+ cell counts was observed.

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HIV vaccines suffer setbacks but new approaches could turn the tide

Pharmaceutical Technology

Only a few weeks into the new year, the prospect of getting a successful advanced HIV vaccine shrank after the discontinuation of yet another late-stage trial. This marks the second time one of Janssen’s HIV vaccines failed after another showed disappointing results in the Phase IIb Imbokodo trial in August 2021.

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?5 Things You Need to Know from Our Recent Gene Therapy Webinar

Worldwide Clinical Trials

The pandemic has had a lasting impact on the ability of sites to participate in trials, particularly in the US. We need to consider how to use diverse populations in gene therapy trials. But it’s important we strive to find ways to include diverse patients so trial data can be representative of the wider population.

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Roche pays $200m for Vaccibody’s cancer vaccine drug

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Vaccibody, which is also entitled to tiered royalties on sales of any marketed products, will develop the DNA-based individualised neoantigen vaccines until the end of phase 1b. The Roche unit will also bear all costs for trials, filings, manufacturing and marketing after the completion of the phase 1b study.

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BioNTech buys UK-based AI startup InstaDeep in £562m deal

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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.