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Tetra and Cellvera partner to develop oral Covid-19 treatment

Pharmaceutical Technology

A first-in-human drug product, ARDS-003 contains the active pharmaceutical agent, Onternabez. A selective viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP) inhibitor, Favipiravir has antiviral activity against single-stranded RNA viruses, such as coronaviruses. Qifenda is a broad-spectrum antiviral drug in the commercial stage.

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Moderna sues Pfizer, BioNTech over COVID-19 vaccine technology

Bio Pharma Dive

The biotech claims its rivals’ vaccine Comirnaty, one of the world’s top-selling pharmaceutical products, infringes on two patents covering its messenger RNA technology.

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Regulating the ribosomal RNA production line

Scienmag

coli enzyme synthesizing ribosomal RNA that shift it between turbo- and slow-modes depending on the bacteria’s growth rate Credit: Murakami Laboratory, Penn State The enzyme that makes RNA from a DNA template is altered to slow the production of ribosomal RNA (rRNA), the […].

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Merck and Orna partner for RNA technology-based vaccines and therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Merck (MSD outside North America) has entered a partnership agreement with Orna Therapeutics for discovering, developing and marketing various programmes based on next-generation RNA technology. By self-circularisation, Orna’s oRNA technology makes circular ribonucleic acids (oRNAs) from linear RNAs.

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ReviR Therapeutics partners with Asieris to develop new oncology therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

The collaboration is aimed at discovering and developing new advanced treatments for genitourinary (GU) tumours as well as other related serious diseases using ReviR’s RNA-targeted technologies. The company’s VoyageR AI platform integrates computational methods to drug traditionally undruggable RNA targets.

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GreenLight and US NIH partner to develop Covid-19 vaccine for variants

Pharmaceutical Technology

The human health product candidates of GreenLight are currently in the pre-clinical stage. In March, the company entered a licensing agreement with Serum Institute of India (SII) to expedite access to messenger RNA products in emerging markets worldwide.

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Cyagen and Neurophth partner to develop gene therapy vectors

Pharmaceutical Technology

According to the deal, Cyagen will leverage its artificial intelligence (AI)-driven high-throughput platform for discovering new AAV vectors with enhanced tissue targeting expertise, tissue specificity and productivity. . Both companies will assess the new AAV vectors’ functional effects in rodent and NHP models.