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AI tool may help doctors select best drugs for COVID patients

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By tying these to underlying disease-protein-pathway relationships, the AI was also able to suggest a list of drugs – many of them untested in COVID-19 – that could be candidates for treatments of these complications. The post AI tool may help doctors select best drugs for COVID patients appeared first on.

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Enabling the next wave of innovative drug therapies with speciality enzymes

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Continuing advancements within this field deliver new hope to doctors and patients, transforming disease outcomes for previously incurable indications. You can also use enzymes for product quality assurance, for example, to digest residual nucleic acid in the downstream process, enabling recombinant proteins to meet regulatory guidelines.”.

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AZ, J&J tweaking COVID shots to reduce clotting risks; report

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At the same time, the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care excellence (NICE) is developing guidance to help doctors manage the cases of vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT) and low blood platelet counts that have been seen with the COVID-19 vaccines.

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Moderna and BioNTech – who are they?

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As it’s just a messenger molecule, it does not affect the body’s own genetic code when it is injected as a vaccine – but what it does do is instruct cells to code for copies of a certain protein. In this case that is the “spike” protein seen on the surface of the coronavirus that it uses to invade host cells.

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Silence Tx uses game to raise thalassaemia awareness

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Thalassaemia is a severe genetic disease that is characterised by significantly reduced production of functional beta-globin, a component of haemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein in the blood. Severely-affected patients need regular blood transfusions to maintain their haemoglobin levels.

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Vyjuvek Gets FDA Nod as First Topical Gene Therapy for Rare Skin Disease

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DEB is a genetic disorder characterized by very fragile skin that rips and blisters easily even from minor friction (like rubbing or scratching) or injury, resulting in open wounds that are prone to skin infections and fibrosis. Vyjuvek is also the first drug approved to treat the disease and is Krystal’s first approved product.

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US experts stress over safety of AZ’s COVID-19 vaccine

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The vaccine is based on a weakened virus that causes cold symptoms in chimpanzee, which causes an immune respone with genetic material coding for the spike protein found on the surface of the coronavirus.