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World AIDS Day 2023: New and Promising Treatments for HIV/AIDS

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Over 26 weeks of Sunlenca combined with other antiretroviral drugs, 81 percent of participants achieved HIV RNA suppression, reaching levels low enough to be considered undetectable. In a study where the antiviral activity of Sunlenca was evaluated in combination with an optimized background regimen, 87.5 percent in the placebo group.

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Investment fuels AI-driven development of breakthrough genomic medicines

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The payload, Del Bourgo tell us, is the therapeutic DNA or RNA sequence that will cure or fix damaged cells. Similar to how we injected mRNA into people to trigger an immune response and train their immune system against COVID-19, genomic medicine repairs cellular or molecular mechanisms that are dysfunctional and cause disease.”.

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Reconfiguring COVID and influenza vaccines for long-term effectiveness

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The beauty of that T-cell response is that you can actually access the internal parts of the virus,” Le Vert states. Osivax’s technology, oligoDOM, trains the T-cell immune response to recognise the nucleoprotein. Alexandre is a graduate of École Polytechnique and Harvard University. About the author.

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Lab to jab in 100 days: manufacturing flexibility for future rapid responses

Pharmaceutical Technology

The mission was first put forward during the UK’s G7 Presidency of June 2021, with support from representatives of the life sciences industry. billion towards the “pandemic-busting plan”, which involves the investigation of rapid response vaccine technologies. The UK Government is behind this effort.

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The challenges and trends of cell & gene therapies 

Drug Discovery World

However, whilst these comments largely reflect a positive outlook for investment in the industry, financing in Q1 of 2022 largely remained level with the backend of last year, hovering just over $500 million according to American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy’s (ASGCT) – Gene, Cell, & RNA Therapy Landscape Q1 report. .

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How big data analytics can make personalised care a reality

Drug Discovery World

We use MA plots, heatmaps, pathway maps, and trend plots of clusters (clusters for features with correlated response) as shown in Figure 2 but also UpSet plots, advanced Venn diagrams, to summarise overlap in differential features across multiple timepoints and study arms.

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Pfizer’s RSV Vaccine Abrysvo Is a New Step for RSV Prevention

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RSV belongs to the family of negative-strand RNA viruses and was first identified in 1955. Abrysvo functions as a vaccine by triggering an immune response specifically aimed at RSV preF, which provides protection against RSV-induced LRTD.