NIH Director's Blog: Drug Discovery

APRIL 11, 2017

Caption: Cyclic peptide (middle) binds to iPGM (blue). Credit: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH When you think of the causes of infectious diseases, what first comes to mind are probably viruses and bacteria. But parasites are another important source of devastating infection, especially in the developing world.

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APRIL 2, 2023

Therapeutic neutralizing monoclonal antibody administration protects against lethal yellow fever virus infection. Read A really simple way to isolate AAVs, which are a type of virus often used to deliver gene therapies into cells. An open-source FACS automation system for high-throughput cell biology. Gene Therapy.

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APRIL 30, 2023

This works for many different cell types, and the method can also be used to deliver several different gene editors at once. It’s an easier way to get CRISPR into cells! Other methods to deliver Cas9 (like with viruses) are way less efficient, and seem to vary wildly from one cell to the next. Nature Cell Biology.

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APRIL 30, 2023

This works for many different cell types, and the method can also be used to deliver several different gene editors at once. It’s an easier way to get CRISPR into cells! Other methods to deliver Cas9 (like with viruses) are way less efficient, and seem to vary wildly from one cell to the next. Nature Cell Biology.

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APRIL 9, 2023

Read Rational design of a highly immunogenic prefusion-stabilized F glycoprotein antigen for a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine. Nature Cell Biology. Read The Engineering Biology Research Consortium released a report on both technical achievements and barriers to progress in the bioeconomy. McGrady N.R.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Molecular biology has only been around for about 80 years, and tools to study biomolecules (such as DNA and RNA sequencing, or proteomics) have only existed for about half of that time. We are in the absolute infancy of molecular and cell biology, and this means there’s a lot of stuff we still don’t understand.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The precise mechanism of the drug against SARS-CoV-2 is not yet known, but researchers have hypothesized that it may prevent the virus from taking hold by interfering with an enzyme it requires to replicate. If disulfiram’s effect against SARS-CoV-2 is confirmed, it could become a useful tool against the virus. A Pandemic Pivot.

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APRIL 16, 2023

Compact gene editors , called enOsCas12f1 and enRhCas12f1, are smaller than many existing Cas proteins and can thus be more easily delivered in a single virus for gene therapies. By engineering the sgRNA and optimizing these proteins, new variants had high editing efficiencies and low off-target effects in human cells. Cell Reports.

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APRIL 8, 2025

The study of RNA tumor viruses revealed reverse transcriptase , an enzyme integral in studying RNA biology. Even their most notorious manifestation, Mad Cow Disease , seems a cautionary tale about contaminated beef rather than a window into one of biology's most fascinating mechanisms. Subscribe to Asimov Press.

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SugarCone Biotech

MAY 28, 2019

Learnings regarding immune geography and cell:cell contact are increasingly important as we consider how best to advance cell therapies for diverse hematologic malignancies and solid tumors ( www.aletabio.com ).

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