Remove DNA Remove Genetic Engineering Remove Immune Response Remove Protein
article thumbnail

COVID prompts another milestone, as India clears first DNA vaccine

pharmaphorum

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the development of mRNA-based vaccines, and its influence has now extended to DNA-based shots as well, with Zydus Cadila’s ZyCoV-D getting emergency use authorisation in India. Proponents of the approach claim that DNA vaccines may have advantages over other technologies like mRNA.

DNA 98
article thumbnail

Q&A with Mark Garner: The golden age of cancer research  

Drug Discovery World

Decades of research on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of how the immune system detects and kills cancerous or pre-cancerous cells, known as immune surveillance, and the factors which modulate that response, have led to understanding how we can enable a patient’s own immune system to fight cancer more efficiently in different ways.