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Welsh startup Antiverse raises $2m for antibody discovery toolkit

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million ($2 million) to develop its artificial intelligence-based platform for discovering therapeutic antibodies. The Cardiff, Wales startup is combining machine learning and phage display techniques to model antibody-antigen binding and says it can cut the time it takes to develop a drug candidate. He added. “In

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How Can Broadening Our Knowledge in Bioconjugate Design and Development Help Develop Better Medicines to Treat Oncology and Beyond?

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Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are at the forefront of targeted cancer therapy. They combine the precision of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) with the potency of cytotoxic drugs to destroy cancer cells, without harming healthy tissue. Abzena is a leader in bioconjugation and ADC development.

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Lilly adds to pain pipeline with Asahi Kasei licensing deal

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Lilly is paying $20 million upfront for exclusive rights to AK1780, a P2X7 receptor antagonist in early-stage clinical development for neuroinflammatory pain conditions, outside Japan and China. While tanezumab is an antibody and has to be delivered by subcutaneous injection, AK1780 is orally bioavailable.

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Switch data back Chiesi/Protalix long-acting Fabry drug

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All told, 80% of the patients have now been treated with this less frequent treatment regimen for more than two years with the efficacy maintained, according to the partners, and no new patients have developed antibodies against the drug – a perennial concern with ERT and something that can reduce its effectiveness.

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The Power of Lipids: Enhancing Drug Delivery with Nanoparticles

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In fact, it has been observed that around 40% of the pharmaceutical drugs approved by regulatory organizations exhibit poor bioavailability / solubility. Further, every year, poor bioavailability is one of the main causes of drug failure in obtaining approval authorization.

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Biopharmaceutical Excipient Manufacturing – Current Scenario and Future Trends

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In the last decade alone, the annual number of approvals of biopharmaceuticals (including monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins, vaccines and gene therapies), by the US FDA, have steadily risen. Over the years, the rising popularity of biologics has led to a paradigm shift in the healthcare industry.

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Novartis’s Spartalizumab Combo Stubles; Union Therapeutics Doses In COVID-19 Trial; Yumanity To Merge With Proteostasis

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The drug, Spartalizumab, is an experimental monoclonal antibody designed as immunotherapy to target the human programmed death-1 (PD-1) receptor. The drug is directly delivered to lungs via inhalation to achieve high local exposures, and address the concerns of low oral bioavailability linked to niclosamide. .

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