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Selecta Biosciences files patent for enhanced gene therapy using viral vectors and immunosuppressants

Pharmaceutical Technology

Enhance gene expression and reduce immune responses with Selecta Biosciences' patented method using viral vectors and nanocarriers attached to immunosuppressants. Learn more about this innovative approach for improved therapeutic outcomes.

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Researchers explain how lipids can control immune response

Medical Xpress

But they are also involved in regulating the genes expressed within—and the signaling between—cells. Lipids influence how our cells behave and function, which affects many processes in the body including the immune system.

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Gene Therapy and Pharmacokinetics

Camargo

As with any standard drug treatment, gene therapies carry potential risks, including adverse events, unexpected gene modification (activation or inactivation), undesired immune responses, or complications with the genetic material. Gene Expression Considerations.

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Researchers uncover molecular pathways underlying depression

Drug Discovery World

Scientists have discovered the link between gene expression, DNA methylation, and brain structural changes in depression, revealing new potential therapeutic targets. Parallel findings in humans underscored the involvement of interferon-related genes in major depressive disorder.

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World Mental Health Day 2023: Drug discovery breakthroughs

Drug Discovery World

Read more: First oral drug for postpartum depression approved in US The role of genetics In October, scientists discovered the link between gene expression, DNA methylation, and brain structural changes in depression, revealing new potential therapeutic targets.

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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

XTalks

Symvivo’s bacTRL Gene Therapy Platform is designed and optimized to address limitations associated with typical vaccines, including the inability to accommodate large or multiple genes, lack of specificity to targeted tissue and poor control over immune response, says the company.

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Personalised mRNA cancer vaccine prolongs survival in melanoma

Drug Discovery World

Vaccine strategies over the last 25 years attempted to induce immune responses against tumour-associated antigens that are not absolutely specific to the tumour,” said presenting author Jeffrey Weber, Deputy Director of the NYU Langone Perlmutter Cancer Center and Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Professor of Oncology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.