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Novavax Announces Agreement with Government of New Zealand for 10.7 Million Doses of COVID-19 VaccineAdvance purchase agreement signed for NVX-CoV2373, Novavax’ adjuvanted protein vaccine candidate

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Currently in Phase 3 clinical testing in the United Kingdom for the prevention of COVID-19, NVX-CoV2373 is a recombinant protein vaccine adjuvanted with Novavax’ proprietary Matrix-M to enhance the immune response. NVX-CoV2373 contains purified protein antigen and can neither replicate, nor can it cause COVID-19.

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mRNA Cancer Vaccines and Therapies: An Overview

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Adoptive T Cell therapies, therapeutic antibodies, and immunomodulatory proteins represent just some of the potentially beneficial treatment strategies for successful mRNA cancer trials. The mRNA constructs used in COVID-19 vaccines, for example, direct cells to produce a version of the “spike” protein studding the surface of SARS-CoV-2.

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Researchers successfully exploit virus against advanced cancers

Drug Discovery World

A new genetically engineered herpes virus has delivered a one-two punch against advanced cancers in initial findings from a Phase I trial. The genetically engineered RP2 virus, which is injected directly into the tumours, is designed to have a dual action against tumours.

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The New Frontier in Drug Development: Understanding Biologics and Small Molecules

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Biologics: Biologics are large, complex molecules, often proteins, that are produced using living cells. Mode of Action : Small Molecules: They often work by binding to specific sites on target proteins to inhibit or activate their function, which can affect various biological pathways inside the cell.

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COVID prompts another milestone, as India clears first DNA vaccine

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DNA vaccines work by delivering a genetically-engineered plasmid containing the DNA sequence encoding the desired antigen – in this case the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein – which is then taken up by cells. Proponents of the approach claim that DNA vaccines may have advantages over other technologies like mRNA.

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Q&A with Mark Garner: The golden age of cancer research  

Drug Discovery World

Decades of research on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of how the immune system detects and kills cancerous or pre-cancerous cells, known as immune surveillance, and the factors which modulate that response, have led to understanding how we can enable a patient’s own immune system to fight cancer more efficiently in different ways.

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Pfizer/BioNTech COVID jab works against Brazil variant; lab study

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The study suggests that serum taken from patients injected with the mRNA shot, also known as BNT162b2, was able to neutralise a genetically engineered version of SARS-CoV-2 with the P.1 1 mutations, as well as variants from the UK and South Africa. That work in the Manaus area, where the variant first emerged, has estimated that P.1