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Scientists produce 'DNA virus vaccine' to fight DNA viruses

Medical Xpress

Rutgers scientists have developed a new approach to stopping viral infections: a so-called live-attenuated, replication-defective DNA virus vaccine that uses a compound known as centanamycin to generate an altered virus for vaccine development.

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Touchlight joins forces with University of Liverpool for NSCLC vaccine

Pharmaceutical Technology

The vaccines will be developed using Touchlight’s doggybone DNA technology, which speeds up the manufacturing process.

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COVID prompts another milestone, as India clears first DNA vaccine

pharmaphorum

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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Could DNA-based COVID-19 vaccine offer variant-busting booster shot?

BioPharma Reporter

With Scancell taking its DNA-based COVID-19 vaccine tech into clinical trials this year, it is already focusing its attention on the techâs potential to be used as a needle-free booster shot to address Variants of Concern.

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Unlocking the potential of synthetic DNA 

Drug Discovery World

Raquel Sanches-Kuiper , Vice President of Science and Applications at Evonetix, and Clare Whitewoods , Marketing Communications Manager at Evonetix, look at the benefits synthetic DNA brings to pharmaceutical development. Their short development timeline gives mRNA vaccines several distinct advantages over traditional vaccines.

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Touchlight receives funding to develeop DNA vaccine platform

Pharma Times

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant will boost potential of nanoparticle-formulated doggybone DNA

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Zydus Cadila nears world-first human plasmid DNA vaccine approval

pharmaphorum

Zydus Cadila has filed for emergency use approval (EUA) in India of its plasmid DNA-based vaccine for COVID-19, which if given a green light could become the first shot of its type to be cleared for widespread use in humans. .

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