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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

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Canadian clinical-stage biotech company Symvivo Corporation has developed an oral COVID-19 vaccine that entered clinical trials this week. The first healthy volunteer was dosed with the vaccine in Australia as part of the bacTRL-Spike COVID-19 Phase I clinical trial.

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Gene Therapy Clinical Trials for Rare Diseases: 5 Key Takeaways from FDA’s Recent Town Hall

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The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office of Tissues and Advanced Therapies (OTAT) held a recent town hall where three experts from the regulator provided guidance on how to design and conduct gene therapy clinical trials for rare diseases. There are around 300 million people worldwide living with a rare disease.

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CMV Vaccine Trials: Moderna’s CMV mRNA Vaccine Enters Phase III

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The study compared the immune responses evoked by Moderna’s mRNA vaccine to those generated by a previous vaccine candidate, namely, the MF59-adjuvanted glycoprotein B (gB) proten subunit vaccine (gB/MF59) developed by Sanofi. During pregnancy, CMV infection is responsible for causing severe birth defects and brain damage in newborns.

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Leqselvi Can Achieve Nearly 90% Scalp Hair Coverage in Severe Alopecia Areata Patients

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Alopecia areata can be triggered by genetics, immune system dysfunction and environmental factors. Leqselvi works by selectively inhibiting the Janus kinases (JAK) JAK1 and JAK2, pathways that play a key role in this misguided immune response.

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

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The safety and efficacy of Cabenuva were established through two randomized, open-label, controlled clinical trials involving 1,182 HIV-infected adults who were virologically suppressed (HIV-1 RNA less than 50 copies/mL) before initiating Cabenuva treatment. Additionally, Gag-specific CD8+ T cells demonstrated an increase of 1.7

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2023 cancer research highlights: Drug development at its best

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In glioblastoma, as with many other highly recurrent cancers, tumour cells that escape treatment develop multiple genetic adaptations that allow them to proliferate. The Gladstone team realised that these mutated cells have a unique genetic signature that could be targeted. “We

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Building Connections on World MS Day 2023

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This year has already seen some promising developments, including breakthroughs in understanding the disease’s genetic and environmental triggers and innovative techniques to manage MS symptoms. More than 200 genetic variants have been identified that are more common in people with MS.