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DECEMBER 5, 2024

2 Structure and function of AAV capsids in gene therapy Wild-type AAV is composed of a protein shell (capsid) that contains a single-stranded DNA genome encoding proteins involved in viral replication, structure and assembly. Therefore, vectors based on these serotypes may enable targeted gene delivery and optimal transduction efficiency.

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Drug Target Review

JANUARY 9, 2024

Dr Levin explained: “It is fascinating and completely unexpected that normal patient tracheal cells, without modifying their DNA, can move on their own and encourage neuron growth across a region of damage.” He continued: “We’re now looking at how the healing mechanism works, and asking what else these constructs can do.”

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

(Nasdaq: TNXP) (Tonix or the Company), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the first participant was enrolled in the observational PRECISION study (TNX-C002), to examine the immune responses to COVID-19 in healthy volunteers who have recovered from COVID-19 or were asymptomatic.

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Codon

JUNE 5, 2025

Certain CRISPR components can add short DNA sequences from the genomes of defeated viruses into the bacterium’s own genome, creating a type of protective “memory.” The core of the CRISPR immune response is a guide RNA (gRNA) that binds to a CRISPR-associated (Cas) protein. pyogenes , making it more specific.

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Agency IQ

APRIL 12, 2024

For therapeutic protein products , a critical use of assays is the detection and assessment of potential anti-drug antibody (ADA) formation, signaling a product’s potential to induce an unwanted immune response. Additionally, six of these comments came from the same organization (Integrated DNA Technologies).

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JUNE 27, 2024

Unlike gene editing, this “epigenetic” editing does not modify the underlying DNA sequence, but it should switch the gene off permanently, which means that this could be a one-time treatment. They used an engineered adeno-associated virus (AAV) that crosses the blood-brain barrier after intravenous administration. Online June 27, 2024.

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Drug Target Review

MAY 14, 2024

Since cancer cells are under chronic stimulation of ER stress, the polypeptides cannot activate innate immune sensors in cancer cells even upon the polypeptide treatment. Which natural agonists impede the activation of intracellular DNA sensors in APCs, and what challenges do they pose?

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Unlike almost every other cell type (except B cells), T cells do not have the exact same chromosomal DNA sequences as other cells in the body. To be therapeutically useful, antigenic peptides must be presented in a way that allows immune responses to destroy cancer cells without causing unacceptable damage to healthy tissue.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

The drugs work by blocking a protein, PD-1 — which helps keep immune responses in check — and stimulating the immune system to attack tumors. The team studied the immune response to CRISPR and designed a new technology that they published in 2021 — a way of removing immune-triggering molecules from CRISPR-edited cells.

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Drug Target Review

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Genome engineering and gene therapies that manipulate DNA sequences in cells have driven a biotechnological revolution over the past decade. 9 In addition, host immune responses further add to the complexity of developing cell-specific AAV capsids for clinical applications. His mentorship produced numerous publications.

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Broad Institute

AUGUST 7, 2023

Related people Paul Blainey Nir Hacohen A signaling protein known as STING is a critical player in the human immune system, detecting signs of danger within cells and then activating a variety of defense mechanisms.

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PLOS: DNA Science

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The idea to redirect an immune response against a pathogen to fight cancer goes back to 1891, when Manhattan bone surgeon William Coley became intrigued by a man’s neck tumor that melted away after he contracted a nasty Streptococcus skin infection. .’” The fishy strategy is both fast and patient-specific.

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Drug Target Review

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Tissue engineering techniques using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), which are differentiated into cardiomyocytes, are being developed to create functional cardiac tissues from patient-derived cells. While commonly used, AAVs have limitations, including immune reactions and difficulties with re-dosing due to pre-existing antibodies.

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Codon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Such contaminants could have the same toxic effects as the bacterial infection, or provoke a severe immune response in the patient, and therefore the phage mixtures must go through extensive purification and testing procedures. This process would begin by taking a sample of bacteria from the patient and sequencing its DNA.

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Broad Institute

AUGUST 11, 2022

Microbial armory In an earlier study, the researchers scanned data on the DNA sequences of hundreds of thousands of bacteria and archaea, which revealed several thousand genes harboring signatures of microbial defense. Most known bacterial defense systems work by sensing viral DNA or RNA, or cellular stress due to the infection.

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PLOS: DNA Science

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Can they deliver healing genes without triggering an overactive immune response? The details are disturbingly reminiscent of the famous case of Jesse Gelsinger , who died from a ferocious immune response to experimental gene therapy in September 1999. million DNA bases. Muscles stop working.

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Codon

APRIL 23, 2023

Unfortunately, they can also trigger immune responses, and they are not super efficient at gene-editing some parts of the brain. These ribonucleoproteins also caused a lower immune response compared to the viruses, and are much easier to make in the lab. in Nature Biomedical Engineering. Ming Li et al. in bioRxiv.

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Codon

APRIL 23, 2023

Unfortunately, they can also trigger immune responses, and they are not super efficient at gene-editing some parts of the brain. These ribonucleoproteins also caused a lower immune response compared to the viruses, and are much easier to make in the lab. in Nature Biomedical Engineering. Ming Li et al. in bioRxiv.

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Drug Target Review

APRIL 26, 2023

Gene-editing methods allow researchers to modify DNA, resulting in alterations in physical characteristics such as eye colour and susceptibility to diseases. To achieve this, scientists utilise various technologies that function similarly to scissors, precisely cutting the DNA at a particular location.

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Codon

APRIL 30, 2023

Read more at Nature Biotechnology ( Similar paper at Nature Biomedical Engineering.) But now, their engineered brethren can live about 82 percent longer. But now, their engineered brethren can live about 82 percent longer. Engineered yeast live longer than their “normal” brethren. From Zhang et al.

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Codon

APRIL 30, 2023

Read more at Nature Biotechnology ( Similar paper at Nature Biomedical Engineering.) But now, their engineered brethren can live about 82 percent longer. But now, their engineered brethren can live about 82 percent longer. Engineered yeast live longer than their “normal” brethren. From Zhang et al.

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Codon

APRIL 2, 2024

in physics at Princeton University, he had a remarkable idea: What if it were possible to build a circuit out of DNA, rather than electronics, and use it to “program” a living cell? In 1997, as Michael Elowitz was studying for a Ph.D. Elowitz had created cells that acted as living oscillators. Another one is immunogenicity.

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PLOS: DNA Science

JANUARY 4, 2024

.” CRISPRs are short DNA sequences, peppered with repeats, that latch onto DNA-cutting enzymes, commandeering and directing them to snip certain parts of a chromosome. The microbes deploy them to dismantle the genetic material of infecting viruses, a little like an immune response. What’s Next?

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. billion units of DNA code are transcribed into more than a hundred volumes, each a thousand pages long, in type so small as to be barely legible.” At least, that’s what every textbook says.

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. billion units of DNA code are transcribed into more than a hundred volumes, each a thousand pages long, in type so small as to be barely legible.” At least, that’s what every textbook says.

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DrugBank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Targeting Novel Bacterial Pathways Traditional antibiotics often target essential bacterial processes such as cell wall synthesis or DNA replication. Advances in genetic engineering have enabled researchers to enhance bacteriophage efficacy and overcome bacterial resistance mechanisms.

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Drug Target Review

DECEMBER 28, 2023

During the process of transformation from a normal cell into a cancer cell, a cell acquires a series of changes, or mutations, in its DNA. But DNA mutations can also result in changes to the proteins that are displayed on the surface of the cancer cell. Neoantigens are recognised as non-self and trigger an immune response.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

whose proprietary peptide- and protein-engineering platform is used to identify and synthesize molecules that can sense glucose or other endogenous modulators of protein activity. The company announced the acquisition of Protomer Technologies Inc., Loxo Oncology at Lilly and Kumquat Biosciences Inc.

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Codon

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

mRNA was the intermediate stage between DNA and protein, a dynamic entity that shifted depending on the second-to-second needs of the cell, able to point out if a cell was cancerous or stressed, what kind of cell it was, and so on. Most crops were now genetically-engineered to tolerate flood, drought, pests, and disease.

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Codon

APRIL 9, 2023

LanzaTech announced a partnership with H&M Move to convert factory carbon emissions into fabrics using engineered microbes. Sponge cells double in population quite quickly — around 40 minutes — and could be engineered to manufacture drugs. Read Biological Engineering *Self-healable spider dragline silk materials.

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Drug Target Review

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Engineering sites on the antibody to enable specific and consistent attachment of the cytotoxic drug to achieve an optimal drug-to-antibody ratio (DAR). Innovations in payload substances, such as topoisomerase inhibitors (topo-1i), and next-generation DNA- damaging agents to replace older, more toxic agents.

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DECEMBER 27, 2020

It is a selective modulator of neuropilin-2 that downregulates the innate and adaptive immune response in inflammatory diseases. platform and its large-capacity VV Cop TK”RR” oncolytic virus, engineered to encode both a Treg-depleting human recombinant anti-CTLA4 antibody generated by BioInvent’s n-CoDeR/F.I.R.S.T.

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Codon

DECEMBER 12, 2024

DNA and RNA molecules are also built from exclusively right-handed nucleic acids. As Richard Dawkins said of biological wheels : “the engineering solution can be seen in plain view, yet [it is] unattainable in evolution because it lies [on] the other side of a deep valley.”

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APRIL 16, 2023

Codon Digest is my weekly roundup of research, news, and industry highlights about engineered biology. Skin microbes can trigger strong immune responses. In other words: Brush some engineered bacteria on the skin, and they activate the immune system to go fight a tumor. Please send me your feedback.

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Drug Target Review

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Discovering and optimising potent therapeutics that direct the immune response against these targets. This requires a deep understanding of how the key components of the immune system – antibodies and TCRs – recognise and interact with their targets on cancer cells. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. Science Advances.

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Drug Target Review

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Aside from the ethical questions they raise, ESCs are in limited supply and are generally recognised as foreign by the recipient patients immune system. This can trigger an immune response that causes the body to reject these therapeutic cells.

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Codon

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

If present before vaccination, memory immune cells primed to destroy the environmental relatives might cross-react with and neutralize the BCG strain before it has a chance to set up an immune response against itself and M. Testing the engineered cells against four common drugs, I found that the M. tuberculosis.

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