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Absci and M2GEN partner to expedite cancer drug development

Pharmaceutical Technology

Absci has collaborated with bioinformatics firm M2GEN to expedite the development of new cancer medicines. Absci stated that this collaboration combines AI drug creation technology and oncology bioinformatics, thereby reducing the time and cost of cancer drug development.

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Could our immune system be why COVID-19 is so deadly?

Scienmag

Credit: Earlham Institute Respiratory viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 (causing COVID-19) can often catalyse an overactive immune response that leads to a life-threatening cycle, known as a cytokine storm.

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GSK’s Maria Reyes Boceta-Muñoz Talks Vaccine Development in a Post-Pandemic World

XTalks

Finally, addressing the time-consuming and costly transition from non-clinical to clinical development due to difficulties in predicting human immune responses is another issue. Therefore, planned protocols should specify in detail methodologies to be used to evaluate immune responses to vaccination.

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STAT+: Foundation charges cancer patients $83,000 for unproven but promising experimental drug

STAT News

“There isn’t a member of the board of JLF who wouldn’t rather be able to do this without charging people,” said Andrew Jacobs, who sits on the boards of the foundation and NorRD Bio, a small Cambridge bioinformatics firm that helps make the vaccines. “It really was a choice of this or nothing.”

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How Can Rapid mRNA Quantification Enhance Multivalent Vaccine Development?

XTalks

Emerging evidence indicates that a multivalent mRNA vaccine encoding hemagglutinin antigens from all known influenza virus subtypes can elicit broad, cross-reactive antibody responses in animal models, demonstrating the potential of mRNA platforms to overcome challenges posed by antigenically variable viruses.

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