Drug Target Review

JUNE 9, 2023

Genentech is responsible for engineering adaptive-discovered TCRs into T cells and manufacturing the T cell therapy product candidate. An antigen is a protein that can induce an immune response in the body. While tumour cells share a majority of their DNA with healthy cells, they also carry numerous unique mutations.

Treatment

PerkinElmer

MAY 6, 2022

One approach currently being explored involves stimulating innate immune response pathways. For example, the STimulator of InterferoN Genes (STING) pathway, which is known to play a critical role in innate immunity in response to viral and bacterial DNA, has also been shown to promote anti-tumor immune responses.

Immune Response

Drug Target Review

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.

Therapies

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.”

Laboratories

The Pharma Data

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.

Vaccine

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).

Production

Broad Institute

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.

Disease

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?

Engineering

Drug Target Review

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.

Engineering

Broad Institute

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.

Research

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.

Engineering

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.

Regulations

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.

Vaccine

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.

Therapies

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.

Therapies

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.

DNA

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.

Therapies

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.

Vaccine

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.

Vaccine

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.

RNA

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.

Vaccine

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.

Vaccine

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.

RNA

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?

FDA Approval

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.

Therapies

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.

Therapies

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.

Therapies

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.

Bioinformatics

The Pharma Data

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.

Production

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.

Engineering

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.

Therapies

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.

Therapies

The Pharma Data

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.

Clinical Trials

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.”

RNA

Codon

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.

Engineering

Codon

MARCH 26, 2023

Link A DNA tumor virus globally reprograms host 3D genome architecture to achieve immortal growth. Link Biological Engineering *Photosynthesis re-wired on the pico-second timescale. Link DNA storage in thermoresponsive microcapsules for repeated random multiplexed data access. Metabolic Engineering. Metabolic Engineering.

DNA

PLOS: DNA Science

JULY 25, 2024

A virus that directly attacks the immune response presents a special challenge. Meanwhile, efforts to engineer a universal vaccine/ for the changeable virus remain challenging. The post Anthony Fauci’s Memoir “On Call” Journeys through a Half Century of Plagues Amid the Politics of Public Health appeared first on DNA Science.

Virus