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Innovation in immuno-oncology: Leading companies in in-vitro T-cell activation

Pharmaceutical Technology

In the last three years alone, there have been over 633,000 patents filed and granted in the pharmaceutical industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Immuno-oncology in Pharmaceuticals: In-vitro T-cell activation. Immatics is the leading patent filer in in-vitro T-cell activation.

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Could CRISPR cure HIV? US biotech Excision raises $60m to find out

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Snipping out this viral code with powerful CRISPR gene editing technology, which last year won Drs Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna the Nobel Prize for chemistry, would in theory prevent the need for drugs to suppress the virus and the development of AIDS.

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More efficient mouse model generation through informed founder selection

Drug Discovery World

Yet when seeking to obtain an existing model, researchers often encounter obstacles related to intellectual property, availability, or licensing. For projects that utilise gene targeting in ESCs, founders are chimeric (composed of genetically distinct cells derived from two different sources: modified ESCs and a host blastocyst).

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Clinical Catch-Up: January 18-22 | BioSpace

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Brilacidin has shown in vitro to be have antiviral properties against different SARS-CoV-2 strains and other human coronaviruses. With a presidential inauguration and a federal holiday, it wasn’t an enormously busy week for clinical trial news, but there was a fair amount, nonetheless. Read on to see. COVID-19-Related. Non-COVID-19-Related.

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Advances in neuroscience drug discovery

Drug Discovery World

According to Medicine Discovery Catapult, these include: “Navigating the complexity of the CNS; understanding the disease pathology, and accessing predictable in vitro and in vivo cell models 2 ”. Dementia is the only major cause of death without a treatment to prevent, slow or stop disease progression. “In In 2019, dementia accounted for 1.8

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Touchlight boosts DNA manufacturing capacity with latest expansion

Pharmaceutical Technology

Tripling its production capacity, Touchlight can now manufacture 8kg plasmid DNA, a key component for mRNA gene therapies and vaccines. As per the company, dbDNA is suitable for rapid, scalable manufacture of GMP DNA and can incorporate gene sequences of sizes ranging from 500bp to 20kb, which are typically unstable as pDNA.

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