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Moderna’s founder launches Laronde, promising new ‘Endless RNA’ drug class

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Flagship Pioneering, the VC fund run by Moderna’s co-founder Noubar Afeyan has launched a new biotech Laronde , with an ambitious plan to create a new class of drugs based on Endless RNA. Called eRNA for short, this class of medicines is programmable and can continuously express therapeutic proteins inside the body.

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Positive initial results for srRNA rabies vaccine

Drug Discovery World

At all assessed doses, RBI-4000 was well-tolerated and achieved a strong immune response, with protective virus-neutralising antibody titers above the World Health Organization (WHO)-defined immune surrogate level of protection against the rabies virus. Preliminary data show that the surrogate metric of protection (RVNA≥0.5)

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

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Repeat sequences aren’t involved in expressing proteins so have been generally under-studied by researchers, but there is increasing evidence that some human traits and diseases may be associated with mutations within them. Most drug discovery programmes target the roughly 2% of the human genome which encodes for protein.

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Gene Therapy and Pharmacokinetics

Camargo

When developing a clinical development program for these increasingly popular therapies, it is important that sponsors use modeling and pharmacokinetic (PK) analysis to evaluate parameters that can be measured while dosing with gene therapy drugs, to characterize exposure-response data and inform rational dosing.

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Boston Scientific pays $336M; Boehringer Ingelheim acquires Abexxa Biologics; Oncology, RNA biotech 858 Therapeutics inks $60M Series A; Novartis acquires Arctos Medical

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Boehringer Ingelheim acquires Abexxa Biologics for precision most cancers drug pipeline. Boehringer stated that the Abexxa’s generation aims at cancer-specific proteins situated throughout the mobile versus proteins at the mobile membrane broadening the selection of possible cancer antigen objectives. Jeffrey Stafford, Ph.D.,

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New strategy for COVID-19 prophylaxis?

The Pharma Data

The ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has caused an imminent urge for both antiviral therapeutical drugs and vaccines. In the light of the further risk of pandemics in the future, however, there remains need for direct antiviral drugs and treatments. Camouflage protects virus from immune system.

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

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In 2022, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval to the medication Sunlenca (lenacapavir) for adults living with multi-drug resistant HIV-1 infection. Developed by Gilead, Sunlenca is the first drug in a novel class known as capsid inhibitors to receive FDA approval for treating HIV-1.