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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

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Canadian clinical-stage biotech company Symvivo Corporation has developed an oral COVID-19 vaccine that entered clinical trials this week. The first healthy volunteer was dosed with the vaccine in Australia as part of the bacTRL-Spike COVID-19 Phase I clinical trial. COVID-19 Clinical Trials.

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Gene Therapy and Pharmacokinetics

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Additionally, gene editing allows us either to remove or to modify harmful genes. While most gene therapy clinical studies are ongoing, a number of products are in advanced clinical development, and several are approved by FDA. Gene Expression Considerations.

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World Mental Health Day 2023: Drug discovery breakthroughs

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Read more: Preclinical study proves antidepressant effects of drug Psychedelic-based drug options Later the same month, Cybin announced it had completed dosing in Cohort 5 of a Phase II trial evaluating CYB003, an investigational proprietary deuterated analog of psilocybin for the potential treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD).

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Cash round sets up trial of InteRNA’s microRNA for cancer

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million ($22 million) in second-round financing as it prepares to start clinical trials of its lead drug candidate INT-1B3 for solid tumours. The start of dosing in the phase 1/1b trial of the drug has been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, but recruitment of the target 80 participants with advanced solid tumours is reported to be ongoing.

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Personalised mRNA cancer vaccine prolongs survival in melanoma

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The clinical benefit was observed regardless of the tumour mutational burden (TMB) status, according to results from the Phase IIb KEYNOTE-942 clinical trial presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2023, held April 14-19. In addition to encoding the target antigens, mRNA vaccines also provide adjuvant properties that amplify the immune response.

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Zynteglo halt re-ignites viral vector safety concerns; analysts

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Bluebird Bio’s decision to hit pause on the launch of Zynteglo for beta thalassaemia after two cases of cancer were seen in a clinical trial could see fears over the safety of viral vectors used to deliver gene therapies resurface. . million in Europe.

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How transcriptomics is driving drug discovery

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Diseases ranging from cancer to viral immune response, from cardiovascular to reproductive health, and from metabolic to nervous systems all have the potential to benefit from in-depth transcriptomics. DDW: Can RNA profiling be used past the point of early development to monitor how drugs perform within clinical trials?

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