article thumbnail

Immunotherapy partnership advances space medicine research

Drug Discovery World

US company Vaxxinity and the University of Central Florida (UCF) have announced plans to work together to advance space medicine research. The post Immunotherapy partnership advances space medicine research appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

article thumbnail

New method identifies antibody-like proteins with diagnostic and therapeutic potential for SARS-CoV-2

Scienmag

Antibody-like proteins that capture and neutralize SARS-CoV-2 Scientists have used a new high-speed, in vitro selection method to isolate 9 antibody-like proteins (ALPs) that bind to the SARS-CoV-2 virus – 4 of which also exhibited neutralizing activity – within 4 days, according to a new study.

Protein 53
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Partners take a personalised approach to long Covid

Drug Discovery World

GeNeuro and Verily will work together to investigate biomarkers related to activation of the proinflammatory HERV-W envelope protein (W-ENV) in SARS-CoV-2 infection. Verily will provide high-resolution multi-omic data generated from Covid-19 patient samples using its immune mapping platform, along with high-powered data analysis.

article thumbnail

Oncotarget: mTORC1 and PLK1 inhibition in adenocarcinoma NSCLC

Scienmag

All these preclinical data strongly suggest that the inhibition of mTORC1 and PLK1 proteins may be a promising therapeutic approach for NSCLC patients Credit: Correspondence to – Didier Decaudin – Didier.decaudin@curie.fr

In-Vivo 96
article thumbnail

News from AACR 2024: Sunday’s highlights

Drug Discovery World

Following this, Benjamin Cravatt, Professor and the Norton Gilula Chair in Biology and Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute, discussed activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) and its use in discovering drug candidates for cancer-relevant proteins.

In-Vivo 52
article thumbnail

South Korean proteomics company Bertis expands to the US

Drug Discovery World

Bertis, a South Korean proteomics-based precision medicine technology company, has established a US-based wholly-owned entity to expand its global presence. The test received marketing approval as an in vitro diagnostic medical device from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in January 2019.

article thumbnail

mRNA pioneers Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman receive Nobel prize

Drug Discovery World

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against Covid-19. The effect was due to the reduced activation of an enzyme that regulates protein production.