Drug Target Review

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We had built a machine learning classifier that has been trained to identify amino acid sequences that have the potential to mimic ‘host defense peptides’ from the human innate immune system. Such peptides play a critical role in the machinery for amplifying innate immune responses.

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Anderson Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and his colleagues, are reporting in iScience the event of an intranasal subunit vaccine that gives durable local immunity against inhaled pathogens. A fundamental limitation of intramuscular vaccines is that they’re not designed to elicit mucosal immunity.

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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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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The vaccine targeted both the inner nucleocapsid (N) and the outer spike (S) proteins of the virus to maximize the immune response. The study showed this broad immune response led to the complete clearance of the virus in a matter of days after infection of previously-vaccinated primates.

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The Pharma Data

JULY 6, 2021

Fitusiran is an investigational, subcutaneously administered small interference RNA therapy in development for the treatment of people with hemophilia A or B, with or without inhibitors and has the potential to transform treatment as it would be the only prophylactic therapy with as few as six injections per year.

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Codon

JUNE 5, 2025

The core of the CRISPR immune response is a guide RNA (gRNA) that binds to a CRISPR-associated (Cas) protein. In wild microbes, Cas9 cuts DNA using two separate RNA molecules, called the CRISPR RNA (crRNA) and trans-activating RNA (tracrRNA). Visit our website to get a copy. Join Asimov Press.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

The reference, called the Immune Dictionary , appears today in Nature. Using single-cell RNA sequencing to analyze gene expression in individual cells, the researchers have found how 86 major cytokines affect 17 immune cell types in mice. For many immune-mediated diseases, there's no cure or treatment.

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JUNE 27, 2024

To deliver CHARM throughout the brain, the team collaborated with scientists in the lab of Ben Deverman , senior director of vector engineering at the Broad and a co-author of the study. 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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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 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. RNA-based therapies, including mRNA and RNA interference (RNAi), are being explored to modulate gene expression in heart cells.

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Codon

APRIL 2, 2024

A gene encoding green fluorescent protein was placed alongside one of the three promoters, and as the engineered cells cycled from one gene to the next, they blinked between green—dark—green—dark. The RNA Exporter , which was developed by Felix Horns and others in my lab, is one example. Another one is immunogenicity.

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Drug Target Review

APRIL 26, 2023

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass), US, have collaborated to create a novel type of nanoparticle that can deliver messenger RNA that encodes for beneficial proteins to the lungs.

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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. Often, when we engineer a cell, we only mess with the magnitude of an effect; this study suggests that we should think more about the timing, too. 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. Often, when we engineer a cell, we only mess with the magnitude of an effect; this study suggests that we should think more about the timing, too. From Zhang et al.

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Broad Institute

AUGUST 11, 2022

In the new study, they homed in on a handful of these genes encoding enzymes that are members of the STAND ATPase family of proteins, which in eukaryotes are involved in the innate immune response. Most known bacterial defense systems work by sensing viral DNA or RNA, or cellular stress due to the infection.

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

But for a recent paper out of Nanjing, China, researchers engineered another enzyme and showed that, when mixed with FAST-PETase, the two worked together to break down plastic twice as fast as the Texas enzyme alone. Because it turns out that at least half of them , in humans, also bind to RNA molecules. RNA export systems.

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

But for a recent paper out of Nanjing, China, researchers engineered another enzyme and showed that, when mixed with FAST-PETase, the two worked together to break down plastic twice as fast as the Texas enzyme alone. Because it turns out that at least half of them , in humans, also bind to RNA molecules. RNA export systems.

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Codon

APRIL 23, 2023

Most people would take the two CRISPR gene-editing components (a Cas9 protein and guide RNA), package them up inside of a virus, and then inject the viruses into the skulls of mice. Unfortunately, they can also trigger immune responses, and they are not super efficient at gene-editing some parts of the brain. Ming Li et al.

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Codon

APRIL 23, 2023

Most people would take the two CRISPR gene-editing components (a Cas9 protein and guide RNA), package them up inside of a virus, and then inject the viruses into the skulls of mice. Unfortunately, they can also trigger immune responses, and they are not super efficient at gene-editing some parts of the brain. Ming Li et al.

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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. Small snippets of double-stranded RNA were sprayed onto hot pepper plants to control a pest, called Frankliniella occidentalis. RNA may offer a safer form of pest control in the future. Shrock E.L.

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Codon

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

But, regardless of which was first, they all operated with the same core data as their mechanism for understanding life: messenger RNA ( mRNA ). Prior therapeutic viruses had had their replication capabilities crippled out of fear of severe immune responses. There was scFormer in 2022, scGPT in 2023, and plenty of others.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 3, 2021

The company and MiNA Therapeutics Limited announced a global research collaboration to develop novel drug candidates using MiNA’s proprietary small activating RNA (saRNA) technology platform. The company announced the acquisition of Protomer Technologies Inc., Loxo Oncology at Lilly and Kumquat Biosciences Inc.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Galidesivir is a broad-spectrum antiviral, an adenosine nucleoside analog that blocks viral RNA polymerase. STP705 is a small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapy that leverages a dual-targeted inhibitory property and polypeptide nanoparticle (PNP)-enhanced delivery to knock down both TGF-beta1 and COX-2 gene expression.

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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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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. Metabolic Engineering. Wichmann J.

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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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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

is advancing messenger RNA (mRNA) science to create a new class of transformative medicines for patients. Both vaccine candidates incorporate Novavax’ proprietary saponin-based Matrix-M adjuvant in order to enhance the immune response and stimulate high levels of neutralizing antibodies. For more information, visit.

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

About Moderna Moderna is advancing messenger RNA (mRNA) science to create a new class of transformative medicines for patients. Both vaccine candidates incorporate Novavax’ proprietary saponin-based Matrix-M adjuvant in order to enhance the immune response and stimulate high levels of neutralizing antibodies.

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Codon

JANUARY 26, 2025

RNA polymerase — the enzyme responsible for replicating influenza’s genetic material — lacks proofreading abilities, meaning that mutations aren’t corrected and can rapidly accumulate. The vaccine must cross the mucosal barrier, ignite a robust immune response, yet not cause excessive inflammation.

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Drug Target Review

MAY 8, 2025

In LETI-101, our engineered nuclease specifically recognises the sequence created by the presence of the ‘T’ allele at the rs362331 SNP site, enabling the highly selective targeting that distinguishes healthy from mutant huntingtin genes.

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Codon

MARCH 26, 2023

Link Experimental Tests of the Virtual Circular Genome Model for Nonenzymatic RNA Replication. Link U1 snRNP increases RNA Pol II elongation rate to enable synthesis of long genes. Link Biological Engineering *Photosynthesis re-wired on the pico-second timescale. Metabolic Engineering. Metabolic Engineering.

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Codon

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Interferon gamma release assays pick up an immune response to the infection. tuberculosis known as rpoB , which codes for part of its RNA polymerase. tuberculosis in his system, his T cells will recognize the antigen and mount an intense immune response at the injection site, leaving behind a red and swollen bull’s-eye.

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