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Study shows engineered gut bacteria can treat hypertension

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Newly published research proves that it's possible to treat high blood pressure by using specially engineered Lactobacillus paracasei to produce a protein called ACE2 in the gut, reducing gut angiotensin II and, in turn, lowering blood pressure.

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Site-Specific Molecular Glues for the 14-3-3/Tau pS214 ProteinProtein Interaction via Reversible Covalent Imine Tethering

Covalent Modifiers

DOI Ansgar Oberheide, Maxime van den Oetelaar, Jakob Scheele, Jan Borggrfe, Semmy Engelen, Michael Sattler, Christian Ottmann, Peter Cossar and Luc Brunsveld RSC Med Chem 2025 [link] Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are key regulators of various cellular processes.

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Scientists 3D-print hair follicles in lab-grown skin

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

When it comes to engineering human skin, hair may at first seem superfluous. However, hair follicles are quite important: They produce sweat, helping regulate body temperature, and they contain stem cells that help skin heal.

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Targeting the immunotherapy potential of cytokines IL-12 and IL-18 with new advancements in protein engineering

Drug Target Review

At Alkermes , our interdisciplinary team of protein engineers, immunologists, pharmacologists, and analytical scientists is investigating the biology of several immunomodulatory cytokines including IL-12 and IL-18 to develop novel versions of these molecules with the goal of harnessing their therapeutic potential.

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How AI will reshape pharma by 2025

Drug Target Review

Regulators care a lot about controlling the Type 1 error rate of the clinical trial, Smith notes. Previously, Aaron was an algorithm engineer and manager of the hand tracking team at Leap Motion. Even if the model we used has some error, it could not increase the Type 1 error rate of the trial. Aaron received his Ph.D.

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Cas9 ancestor engineered into a compact genome editing tool

Broad Institute

Cas9 ancestor engineered into a compact genome editing tool By Tom Ulrich May 14, 2025 Breadcrumb Home Cas9 ancestor engineered into a compact genome editing tool Researchers adapt a compact RNA-guided enzyme from bacteria for a variety of DNA editing tasks in human cells.

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Improved prime editing system makes gene-sized edits in human cells at therapeutic levels

Broad Institute

This system, called eePASSIGE, can make gene-sized edits several times more efficiently than other similar methods, and is reported today in Nature Biomedical Engineering. “To Nature Biomedical Engineering. We hope this system will prove to be an important step towards realizing the benefits of targeted gene integration for patients.”

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