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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

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The Burnaby, BC-based company developed the oral DNA-based vaccine using its proprietary bacTRL Gene Therapy Platform, which uses genetically modified bifidobacteria as carriers of genetic vaccine elements on a DNA plasmid. Related: Red Meat Allergy Test Gets FDA Clearance. “We

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Study finds structural changes in the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha and Beta variants

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Changes to the ‘spike’ protein explain Alpha’s faster spread, and how the Beta variant evades immune responses, suggesting the need for a booster with an updated vaccine Credit: Bing Chen, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital New SARS-CoV-2 variants are spreading rapidly, and there are fears that current COVID-19 vaccines won’t (..)

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Mutations leading to omicron variant did not enable virus to fully escape immune system

The Pharma Data

That’s because the mutations that led to the variant’s emergence aren’t found in the regions of the virus that stimulates one type of cellular immune response, says an international research team from Johns Hopkins Medicine, in collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and ImmunoScape, a U.S.-Singapore

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AZ expands phase 3 trials of COVID-19 vaccine frontrunner into US

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The UK pharma said that the trial will recruit up to 30,000 adults aged 18 years or over to assess the safety, efficacy and immune response. The trial is assessing efficacy and safety of the vaccine in all participants, and local and systemic reactions and immune responses will be assessed in 3,000 participants.

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World AIDS Day 2023: New and Promising Treatments for HIV/AIDS

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Its mechanism of action involves blocking the protein shell (capsid) of the HIV-1 virus, disrupting multiple crucial stages of the viral lifecycle. This candidate, derived from a person’s own genetically modified cells, aims to restore the Gag-specific CD4+ T cell response in those receiving antiretroviral therapy.

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Experimental vaccine protects against deadly Sudan virus

Drug Discovery World

One of these candidates is VSV-SUDV, developed and tested by scientists at NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Hamilton, Montana. In the current studies, the investigators replaced the key EBOV protein in Ervebo with the comparable protein from SUDV.

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Novavax COVID-19 vaccine demonstrates 90% overall efficacy and 100% protection against moderate and severe disease in PREVENT-19 Phase 3 trial

The Pharma Data

Nasdaq: NVAX), today announced that NVX-CoV2373, its recombinant nanoparticle protein-based COVID-19 vaccine, demonstrated 100% protection against moderate and severe disease, 90.4% NVX-CoV2373 is a protein-based vaccine candidate engineered from the genetic sequence of the first strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease.