XTalks

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Moderna has been testing an experimental mRNA vaccine aimed at combating the human cytomegalovirus (CMV), which poses significant health risks to newborns and immunocompromised patients. The team used the data and patient samples from a gB/MF59 Phase II trial in adolescent girls as a benchmark to assess the new mRNA-based vaccine.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 29, 2023

Improving the seasonal influenza vaccine and public health specialists' ability to predict pandemic potential in new flu strains may be possible, due to new findings from scientists at St. The key is the stability of a viral protein that gains entry into human cells. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In 2021, a group of scientists led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian reported that the Moderna mRNA vaccine and a protein-based vaccine candidate containing an adjuvant, a substance that enhances immune responses, elicited durable neutralizing antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 (..)

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pharmaphorum

MAY 19, 2022

Moderna has joined forces with non-profit organisation IAVI on a third phase 1 trial of its candidate HIV vaccine in Africa, where the burden of the virus is still being keenly felt. There are hopes that its mRNA approach, which proved so effective against COVID-19, could succeed where traditional vaccine technologies have failed in HIV.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 15, 2021

Even as several safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines are being administered to people worldwide, scientists are still hard at work developing different vaccine strategies that could provide even stronger or longer-lasting immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2021 Apr 8:2021.04.08.438884.

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 18, 2023

An effective HIV vaccine may need to prompt strong responses from CD8+ T cells to protect people from acquiring HIV, according to a study from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Further tests revealed that this dampened response was due to reduced sensitivity to HIV of vaccine recipients’ T-cell receptors.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 7, 2020

7, 2020 — Scientists say they may be getting closer to creating a universal flu vaccine. In an early-stage clinical trial with 65 volunteers in the United States, an experimental vaccine triggered strong immune responses to a wide range of flu virus strains and subtypes. MONDAY, Dec.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Scientists in the US say they have developed an mRNA-based vaccine that encompasses all 20 known subtypes of influenza that could form the basis of a future universal jab. The goals of the programme are also similar to those in COVID vaccine development.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

AstraZeneca has resumed UK trials for its coronavirus vaccine, after the country’s medicines regulator gave the all-clear following a safety scare. Good news for everyone the Oxford vaccine trials are back up and running. We will back our scientists to deliver an effective vaccine as soon as safely possible [link].

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 20, 2021

Laboratory studies have confirmed that antibodies stimulated by Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine can neutralise the new, more transmissible variant of SARS-CoV-2 identified in the UK. VOC 202012/01 has an unusually high number of genetic changes however, with 10 mutations affecting the spike protein. lineage or VOC 202012/01.

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The Pharma Data

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

The COVID-causing virus SARS-CoV-2 harbors a vulnerable site at the base of its spike protein that is found also on closely related coronaviruses, according to a new study from Scripps Research. In the new work, they mapped at atomic scale the site, or “epitope,” to which the antibody binds on the SARS-Cov-2 spike protein.

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Vaccine protects animals against tick-borne Powassan virus, an emerging infectious disease Credit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA — (Oct. A rapidly reemerging tick-borne disease, POWV has been reported […].

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 30, 2021

Just a few months after starting clinical trials of its nasal spray vaccine for COVID-19, US biotech Altimmune is abandoning the project, saying that it generated weaker than expected immune responses in a phase 1 trial. . The post Altimmune ditches nasal COVID vaccine on weak trial data appeared first on.

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 6, 2022

While scientists have struggled in the past to create an effective vaccine against HIV, a novel vaccine design strategy shows new promise, according to data from a first-in-human clinical trial. . The Phase I trial (IAVI G001) tested the first stage in a multi-stage HIV vaccine regimen the researchers are developing.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 21, 2023

coli to make all their life-sustaining proteins from 61 sets of genetic building blocks, or codons, instead of the naturally occurring 64. Each tRNA’s role is to recognise a specific codon and add the corresponding amino acid to a protein that’s being built. The HMS team figured out that the key lay in transfer RNAs (tRNAs).

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

US medical experts are reportedly concerned that a neurological side effect picked up in AstraZeneca’s closely-watched COVID-19 vaccine trial could compromise the whole project, as the FDA weighs whether to give the go ahead for US studies to resume. The post US experts stress over safety of AZ’s COVID-19 vaccine appeared first on.

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Scienmag

MAY 27, 2021

A digital tool that will make it cheaper, safer and faster to develop new medicines is being rolled out by scientists from the University of Bath in the UK.

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Scienmag

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

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.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

DECEMBER 5, 2022

With the establishment of this Translational Science Hub, Queensland is set to become an international messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine hub. With an initial focus on enchaining mRNA technology and developing a vaccine for Chlamydia, the research at the hub is anticipated to commence in the first quarter of next year.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 22, 2021

As research developments into RNA vaccines help scientists accelerate drug candidates to arm the immune system against coronavirus, Pharma IQ ’s Keeping tabs on Covid-19 update returns with news from some of the biotechnology innovators leading the fight against the global pandemic.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After being hailed as a triumph of public-private drug development, Moderna’s partnership with the US government on its COVID-19 vaccine looks like it may descend into acrimony. The patent has been filed but not yet awarded.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Next generation vaccines for COVID-19 should aim to induce an immune response against ‘replication proteins’, essential for the very earliest stages of the viral cycle, concludes new research carried out by UCL scientists. ” Discovering the T cell response to replication proteins.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As the death toll from COVID19 inexorably mounts, Pfizer and BioNTech have announced that their COVID-19 vaccine candidate is more than 90% effective at countering the disease in an interim analysis. This means that protection is achieved 28 days after the initiation of the vaccination, which consists of a 2-dose schedule.

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World of DTC Marketing

APRIL 11, 2021

QUICK THOUGHT: People believe the COVID-19 vaccine was developed in less than a year but that’s not true. Based on the virus a number of vaccines targeting the spike protein were designed, tested in animal models and found to be quite promising against SARS and other coronavirus illnesses like Middle East respiratory syndrome.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Health and Social Care Secretary, Sajid Javid, announced the move as researchers race to uncover the effect of existing vaccines on the Omicron variant, which was first identified by scientists in South Africa. Up to 60 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine, which may include authorised booster doses, were given the green light.

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The Pharma Data

JUNE 30, 2021

For their remarkable scientific contributions, doctoral student Julia Klaus, Zurich University VetSuisse Faculty, and Dr Yasmin Parr from the MRC-University of Glasgow, Centre for Virus Research, have received the 2021 ABCD Young Scientist Award. To foster young talent development in the feline health research community. References.

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XTalks

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The company has signed on to help manufacture AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, AZD1222, intended to protect against the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus. AMRI is proud to partner with AstraZeneca in pursuit of a vaccine that could protect people against the coronavirus pandemic,” said John Ratliff, CEO of AMRI, in a statement.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Engineering biology is reshaping the world, from enabling the rapid development of vaccines to providing alternatives to petroleum fuels. mRNA vaccines and antibody therapies in particular are promising areas that are already having significant impact across the healthcare industry, with enormous potential to address unmet medical needs.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 14, 2021

AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson are both exploring ways to modify their COVID-19 vaccines to minimise the risk of severe blood clotting reactions that are seen – albeit rarely – in some people receiving the jabs. Its guideline is due to be published before the end of this month.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 9, 2021

Research by Lancaster University scientists to create a COVID-19 vaccine which can be administered through the nose has taken a significant step forward. The pre-clinical animal trials of the intranasal vaccine showed a reduction in both the impact of the disease itself and transmission of the virus.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 20, 2023

In addition to new regulatory functionalities, this feature may result in stronger and more durable protein expression. Circio aims to develop new circRNA medicines initially for cancer, then plans to expand rapidly into vaccines and gene therapy.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Scientists have shown how stomach cancers can develop resistance to a new class of drugs called ATR inhibitors by switching off the activity of two key genes – raising the possibility of outsmarting cancer by predicting drug resistance in advance. Click’ chemistry used to tag proteins made by cancer cells.

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XTalks

JANUARY 11, 2023

The new subvariant has also been dubbed “Kraken” by some scientists. Importantly, preliminary data shows that bivalent COVID-19 vaccines that target the parent strain of Omicron should provide protection against XBB.1.5 on the horizon as scientists say the virus appears to be rapidly evolving , mutating faster than most viruses.

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The technique should help in the design of vaccines against HIV, SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses that cloak their outer proteins with sugars to evade antibodies.

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The Pharma Data

JUNE 1, 2022

has been appointed Senior Vice President and Head of the Company’s Vaccine Research & Development (R&D) organization effective August 1, succeeding Kathrin U. Annaliesa is a world-class scientist with a track record of delivering both vaccines and therapeutics in pioneering new areas of science and where there is urgent unmet need.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Moderna and BioNTech, two rising stars in biotech, were in the limelight this year with their pioneering mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. But the tragic events of 2020 have meant these companies have become household names as their trailblazing mRNA vaccines became the first to be approved by regulators against the COVID-19 scourge.

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XTalks

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The answer may lie in the genetic code of the virus, which scientists at Duke University have found contains several silent mutations that affect protein folding. The researchers focused on the spike proteins that protrude from the surface of the coronavirus, which are responsible for viral attachment and entry into host cells.

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