Bio Pharma Dive

AUGUST 25, 2021

The pharma has struck its second research pact focused on drugs that break down harmful proteins in as many years, this time with California biotech Lycia Therapeutics.

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Bio Pharma Dive

JUNE 14, 2023

The alliance is Astellas’ second recent partnership involving protein degraders, an emerging area of drug research the company has made a focus in recent years.

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Bio Pharma Dive

JULY 28, 2022

Vicinitas and its protein-stabilizing research have attracted $65 million from a group of investors that includes a16z, Deerfield and GV.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 25, 2023

Astellas Pharma has entered a research partnership and licence agreement with PeptiDream for the discovery of new targeted protein degraders.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Researchers have identified a protein that, when present in high amounts in breast cancer tumors, is an indicator of whether DNA-damaging therapies will work or not.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 15, 2023

Japan-based Astellas Pharma has entered a partnership with Cullgen to discover and develop multiple targeted protein degraders through the latter’s proprietary uSMITE targeted protein degradation platform, in a deal potentially worth $1.9bn. This method can target enzymes, transcription factors, scaffold proteins and more.

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Pharma Times

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have revealed new findings about a key pathological protein associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD), which could lead to new treatments. However, its relation to dopaminergic neuron death is unclear.

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 13, 2024

Basecamp Research launches BaseFold, a deep learning model that it says surpasses benchmark tool AlphaFold2 and should accelerate AI-based drug discovery.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 27, 2023

In a new study, researchers examined how a country's number of published 3D protein structures for coronaviruses, including the one responsible for COVID-19, correlated with its economic output and population.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 18, 2023

A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has discovered a protein that appears to be pivotal for traumatic heterotopic ossification (HO), a condition in which bone forms in muscles, tendons, and other soft tissues after traumatic injury or surgery.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 5, 2021

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are becoming increasingly relevant in the pathology of many diseases, including cancer. PPIs are an integral part of the physiology of living organisms, as complexes which control biological pathways mediated by proteins. These regions are critical for optimal interactions between proteins.

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XTalks

MARCH 31, 2023

BMS researchers on the mission will study the crystallization of an assortment of their biologics medicines in microgravity. By growing high quality crystal structures of protein-based therapeutics under microgravity, researchers can gain better insights into their complex structures and stability.

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Researchers at the University of Toronto have identified hundreds of new proteins that could play a role in cystic fibrosis, and which may shed light on why some patients respond better than others to current therapies.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 2, 2022

A researcher has for the first time profiled 6,000 sperm proteins that could help create a non-hormonal male contraceptive—while also building on key research linking sperm health to overall men's health.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 21, 2023

Gilead Sciences has exercised its option to exclusively license the investigational targeted protein degrader development candidate, NX‑0479, from clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company Nurix Therapeutics. GS-6791 is the first development candidate from the previous collaboration between Gilead Sciences and Nurix in 2019.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 15, 2023

In the last three years alone, there have been over 633,000 patents filed and granted in the pharmaceutical industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Immuno-oncology in Pharmaceuticals: Oncolytic viral proteins. Sillajen and Advaxis are the other key patent filers of oncolytic viral proteins.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Aqilion and Merck have entered an exclusive licence and strategic research partnership for the discovery, development and commercialisation of the transforming growth factor-β-activated kinase 1 (TAK1) protein-small molecule inhibitors.

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 10, 2024

Protein drugs hold great promise as therapeutics for a wide range of diseases, however, one of the greatest challenges is their short circulation half-life. Several protein conjugation strategies have been explored for half-life extension with PEGylation being the most common.

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BioPharma Reporter

AUGUST 10, 2023

Evox Therapeutics, an exosome therapeutics company, has announced the publication of its research identifying novel exosome scaffold proteins that significantly improve drug loading into exosomes for therapeutic purposes.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Medicines that are based on mRNAs and proteins—particularly vaccines and antibodies—are time-intensive and costly to make. The challenge is in producing the necessary mRNAs and proteins in large enough amounts at low cost.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Biomedical and genetic engineers at Duke University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have designed a small fluorescent protein that emits and absorbs light that penetrates deep into biological tissue.

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Scienmag

APRIL 27, 2021

Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – April 27, 2021 – Researchers with the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Scientists from the departments of […].

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Bio Pharma Dive

MAY 16, 2024

While results indicated the drug works as intended, it didn’t have enough of an effect on a protein that’s become integral to many ALS research programs.

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Scienmag

JANUARY 6, 2022

Protein assembly is essential for the formation of ordered biological structures, but imagine engineering one! This is exactly what researchers at Tokyo Tech have now accomplished with protein needles.

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Scienmag

APRIL 18, 2022

From the muscle fibers that move us to the enzymes that replicate our DNA, proteins are the molecular machinery that makes life possible. Credit: (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston / Georgia Tech) From the muscle fibers that move us to the enzymes that replicate our DNA, proteins are the molecular machinery that makes life possible.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 17, 2023

The Lung Cancer Research Foundation (LCRF) has announced a new research partnership with Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca. This collaboration is intended to fund up to three research grants that are focused on antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for improving the outcomes for lung cancer patients.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 9, 2023

A research team at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently identified a protein that triggers the migration of liver and pancreatic cancer cells and metastasis and is correlated with shortening the survival time of patients. Cancer metastasis is a major cause of cancer-related death.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 8, 2023

A study published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research has identified a bone matrix protein called Secreted phosphoprotein 24 kD (Spp24) that may help to treat osteosarcoma, the most common type of bone cancer.

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Pharma Times

JUNE 26, 2024

AD is the most common form of dementia, which affects over 944,000 people in the UK

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 14, 2024

On today’s pharmaphorum podcast, Glen Gowers, co-founder of Basecamp Research, gets into the company’s recent pre-print paper and how it improves upon AlphaFold 2, the current gold standard for protein folding prediction.

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XTalks

APRIL 26, 2022

California-based startup Air Protein developed an alt meat called Air Meat, which is made using microbes that turn recycled carbon dioxide (CO2) into protein. So, how does the company make alt protein out of thin air? So, how does the company make alt protein out of thin air?

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Researchers have found changes in the levels of particular proteins in people's blood up to two years before they were diagnosed with breast cancer.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

million grant to engineer microbial cell factories to produce membrane proteins which will support future drug screening and sustainable chemical production. The Engineering Biology Mission Award was given by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). for drug discovery research appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 20, 2023

A team with the participation of researchers from the Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has revealed the structure of the protein responsible for Huntington's disease, a severe neurodegenerative pathology characterized by the progressive disorder of movement and cognitive function. (..)

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Chemical topology is a unique dimension for protein engineering. Over the past few years, the discovery of topological nontrivial proteins in nature has already revealed their many potential functional benefits, such as enhanced thermal/mechanical/chemical stability.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and their colleagues have found that a toxic protein made by the body called DUX4 may be the cause of two very different rare genetic disorders.

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Pharma Times

APRIL 29, 2024

The new process makes generating active pharmaceutical ingredients quicker and easier

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