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The plant virus that trains your immune system to kill cancer

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A virus from humble black-eyed peas is showing extraordinary promise in the fight against cancer. Unlike other plant viruses, the cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) can awaken the human immune system and transform it into a cancer-fighting powerhouse, without infecting human cells.

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The future of CNS drug development: signs of real progress

Drug Target Review

This heterogeneity also affects the ability to produce consistent results in clinical trials, as study groups sharing the same symptoms and disease progressions are hard to find. These gaps in knowledge can lead to a trial-and-error approach to clinical trials, which can result in high failure rates.

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Sarepta Strengthens ELEVIDYS Safety Measures for Non-Ambulatory Duchenne Patients

The Pharma Data

This independent expert panel will aid in evaluating a new, enhanced immunosuppressive regimen meant to help ease the body’s adaptive immune response — a process suspected to contribute to the elevated liver enzyme abnormalities and related events that have been observed in a small number of patients following treatment with AAV-based gene therapy.

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A Visual Guide to Gene Delivery

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And even if all these economic hurdles are overcome, there are still three main technical challenges to solve: cargo capacity, specificity, and immune response. Some diseases are caused by mutations in large genes that exceed the packaging limits of existing vectors like adeno-associated virus (AAV).

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Roche shares Elevidys safety update in non-ambulatory Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients

The Pharma Data

This update comes after two cases of fatal acute liver failure (ALF) were reported in non-ambulatory DMD patients who received Elevidys, a phenomenon that underscores the ongoing complexities and safety signals related to adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated gene therapy.

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A Visual Guide to Genome Editors

Codon

The core of the CRISPR immune response is a guide RNA (gRNA) that binds to a CRISPR-associated (Cas) protein. If the same virus invades the cell a second time, the gRNA’s spacer sequence will bind to the matching viral DNA sequence, then be cut by the Cas protein.

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Two HIV vaccine trials show proof of concept for pathway to broadly neutralizing antibodies

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A decades-long scientific challenge in HIV vaccine development has been finding a way to train the immune system to produce antibodies that can target many variants of the virus. Traditional approaches haven't worked -- largely because HIV mutates rapidly and hides key parts of itself from the immune system.