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International Women’s Day: Female life science leaders

Drug Discovery World

For International Women’s Day, DDW’s Diana Spencer celebrates some of the women in leadership making an impact on the drug discovery and life sciences sector. The life sciences sector has traditionally outperformed others when it comes to attracting women to its workforce. Dr Loubna Bouarfa, Founder and CEO, OKRA.ai

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Touchlight boosts DNA manufacturing capacity with latest expansion

Pharmaceutical Technology

Enzymatic DNA production company Touchlight have augmented its DNA production capabilities with a newly announced expansion to its London facilities. Tripling its production capacity, Touchlight can now manufacture 8kg plasmid DNA, a key component for mRNA gene therapies and vaccines.

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Eterna acquires Exacis’ allogeneic immuno-oncology platform

Drug Discovery World

Eterna Therapeutics, a life science company focused on mRNA cell engineering, has acquired Exacis Biotherapeutics’ immuno-oncology platform. In contrast to DNA-based reprogramming and gene editing, the mRNA-based approach does not expose cells to expensive and potentially harmful viruses or DNA vectors.

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Offshore warning as UK biotech investment rises sharply in 2021

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2021 was a record year for investments in UK biotech companies, consolidating the country’s position as one of Europe’s top life science hubs and apparently shrugging off the effects of the pandemic and Brexit. “History has handed the UK two world-leading sectors: life sciences and finance.

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INOVIO Announces Publication of Phase 1 Data from its COVID-19 DNA Vaccine Candidate, INO-4800 in The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine

The Pharma Data

” Dr. Stanley Plotkin , Professor Emeritus at The Wistar Institute, said, “INOVIO’s DNA vaccine appeared to be quite safe with few significant reactions but yet induced both antibody and T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2.” About INOVIO’s DNA Medicines Platform. mg and 2.0

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Top 10 Fastest Growing Biotech Companies in 2023

XTalks

Xoma’s unique approach involves acquiring future economic interests tied to pre-commercial therapeutic candidates that have been licensed to pharmaceutical or biotech companies. It is now progressing towards the submission of a Biologics License Application (BLA) by the end of 2023. million, compared to $1.1

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Modernizing cell culture processes for the next wave of genomic medicine

Pharmaceutical Technology

The established method for this process is a triple transfection using three different DNA plasmids. This is really what has been very challenging for upscaling viral vector production and what leads some companies that have in-licensed projects with a huge amount of viral vector to slightly panic about future production,” she says.

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