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CohBar and Morphogenesis in merger for immuno-oncology therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Morphogenesis’s technologies include Immune Fx (IFx) personalised cancer vaccines and tumour microenvironment (TME) modulators. IFx has been designed to activate an innate immune response against tumour antigens that are patient-specific. Morphogenesis’ lead personalised cancer vaccine, IFx-Hu2.0,

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Organ-on-a-chip models in drug development

Drug Discovery World

Existing in vivo and in vitro models aren’t up to the challenge Preclinical tools exist for the evaluation and screening of potential drug candidates. Existing in vivo and in vitro models aren’t up to the challenge Preclinical tools exist for the evaluation and screening of potential drug candidates.

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Organ-on-a-chip models in drug development

Drug Discovery World

Existing in vivo and in vitro models aren’t up to the challenge Preclinical tools exist for the evaluation and screening of potential drug candidates. Existing in vivo and in vitro models aren’t up to the challenge Preclinical tools exist for the evaluation and screening of potential drug candidates.

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How T Cell Tests Could Trump Antibody Tests in the Detection of COVID-19

XTalks

The cell-based tests are designed to identify specific T cells that are activated in response to a pathogen — which in this case would be SARS-CoV-2. Traditional antibody tests for uncovering past infections involve detection of antigen-specific antibodies produced during an immune response against a pathogen.

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The Achilles’ heel of cancer

Drug Discovery World

Palmitoyl transferases are a zinc finger Asp-His-His-Cystype (ZDHHC) family containing 23 distinct mammalian genes (excluding ZDHHC10) that catalyse this reaction 1. Conformational changes in the Ras membrane proximal domain facilitate the phosphorylation of GDP to GTP and the kinase domain activation.

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Budget 2021: Sunak focuses on vaccine development to restart economy

pharmaphorum

There will be £22 million to fund a study to test effectiveness of combinations of different COVID-19 vaccines, as well as the world’s first study assessing effectiveness of a third vaccine dose to improve the response against current and future variants.

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The evolution of assays for immuno-oncology research

Drug Discovery World

Cancer is a complex heterogenous multistep disease characterised by uncontrolled cell proliferation combined with a dysregulated immune response. A healthy immune system is naturally primed to eliminate malignant and abnormal cells through a synchronised and dynamic interplay between adaptive and innate immunity.