Bio Pharma Dive

MAY 19, 2023

The biotech, best known for its vaccine research, said its clinical trial is the first to report results of a messenger RNA therapeutic designed for intracellular protein replacement.

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

APRIL 28, 2024

Our bodies are alive with activity and packed with proteins jammed into fatty membranes or floating in and out of watery cells. Scientists have now, for the first time, captured the dance between the two: a liquid tango featuring proteins and fats as they would normally move in cells.

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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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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

JULY 15, 2024

Twisted and tangled proteins are found in the brains of many of those who die with Alzheimer’s disease. Some scientists suspect these neural knots can harm and even kill brain cells, but so far in clinical trials, drugs that have tried to target the tangles have shown limited success. A promising new medicine has now […]

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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. Merck will be responsible for leading the preclinical pharmacology and biology trials.

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

APRIL 29, 2024

A unique genetic mutation in two siblings – that has never been seen in anyone else – has been discovered by UK researchers at the University of Exeter, pointing the way towards new treatment options for type 1 diabetes. The mutation is in the gene for a protein called programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), and a […]

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Bio Pharma Dive

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Detailed clinical trial data for Roche's gantenerumab showed treatment cleared far less toxic protein from patients' brains than expected, potentially explaining its divergent result from Eisai’s lecanemab.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

While there is no cure to this neurodegenerative condition, academics and companies are pushing through with research that could help patients and their families. Different approaches that are studied include antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), and gene therapies, which are in early clinical trials. The trial features four cohorts.

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

JULY 24, 2024

We’ve known for over a century that mice and rats live longer when they are fed less, but a new study reveals the secret might be an imbalance between energy consumed and burned, rather than a lack of energy or protein. Researchers from the US and UK studied groups of mice put on identical diets, […]

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

JUNE 19, 2024

(Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank/Getty Images) Our body’s circadian clock affects everything from sleepiness to metabolism – and it might also influence how effective certain cancer treatments are, according to recent research.

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The team, led by researchers from Stanford University, adapted a technique used for analyzing eye fluid. Almost 6,000 proteins detected in the fluid could be traced […]

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A detailed look at minute differences in the levels of specific proteins in blood has allowed researchers to identify potential early warning signs of dementia.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

AUGUST 5, 2022

As per the prevailing prion theory, a misfolded version of a normal cell-surface protein acts as the chief infectious agent. According to GlobalData’s Pharma Intelligence Center, there are only six drugs in active development for CJD, of which only one has been in clinical trials. And then comes the question of the right target.

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AUGUST 22, 2024

Neurons aren’t the only brain cells producing the proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease, a new study of mouse models reveals. Amyloid beta proteins occur naturally in our brains, but have long, and now controversially, been associated with Alzheimer’s disease. “Until now, neurons were […]

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APRIL 2, 2024

Alzheimer’s disease is commonly associated with clumps and tangles of proteins building up in brain cells. A study led by researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine returned to observations of large fat drops […]

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Last week, Nature magazine published a paper detailing an in-situ study of Parkinson’s disease (PD), showing protein structural changes in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) between healthy individuals and Parkinson’s patients. In PD clinical research, many biomarkers, such as neurofilament, can be measured within the CSF using a lumbar puncture.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Only a few weeks into the new year, the prospect of getting a successful advanced HIV vaccine shrank after the discontinuation of yet another late-stage trial. This marks the second time one of Janssen’s HIV vaccines failed after another showed disappointing results in the Phase IIb Imbokodo trial in August 2021.

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XTalks

MAY 7, 2021

As Novavax awaits emergency use authorization (EUA) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its protein-based COVID-19 vaccine NVX-CoV2373, the company shared new data this week on the vaccine’s efficacy against the South African B.1.351 These results came from data from Novavax’s Phase III UK trial where B.1.117

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

MAY 18, 2023

In particular, researchers noticed a reduction in the interleukin-1-beta (IL-1β) protein, which helps to regulate the body’s […] It seems the chemical compound can stop some of the damage done to the brain that’s usually associated with the disease.

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In July 2022, Science magazine reported that a key 2006 research paper, published in the prestigious journal Nature, which identified a subtype of brain protein called beta-amyloid as the cause of Alzheimer’s, […].

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 19, 2021

Gain Therapeutics has priced its initial public offering, raising more than $40 million for its computational drug discovery platform and pipeline of drugs for diseases associated with protein misfolding. . The post Protein misfolding specialist Gain nets $40m from IPO appeared first on. and valuing the company at around $130 million.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Six minutes of high-intensity exercise is enough to produce a key protein in the brain, one that’s important in brain formation, function, and memory, and which has been implicated in the progress of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.

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World of DTC Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Once introduced into the human body, the protein-making machinery uses this genetic material in our cells to churn out the coronavirus “spike protein,” triggering an immune response. Another consideration is that while in traditional vaccine development, clinical trials are carried out in sequence. Then there are the finances.

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MARCH 5, 2024

The first twin study of its kind suggests that taking daily protein and prebiotic supplements can improve scores on memory tests in people over the age of 60. What’s good for your aging gut may also be good for your aging brain. The findings are food for thought, especially as the same visual memory and […]

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

PET scans were used to measure protein levels in the brain. In their 2023 study of 62 older, cognitively healthy adults, researchers from the University of California […]

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pharmaphorum

MAY 19, 2022

Moderna has joined forces with non-profit organisation IAVI on a third phase 1 trial of its candidate HIV vaccine in Africa, where the burden of the virus is still being keenly felt. One candidate – mRNA-1644 – has already shown its potential in an earlier phase 1 trial (IAVI G001) run in the US.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

NewAmsterdam Pharma announced promising results from its Phase III TANDEM clinical trial, evaluating a fixed-dose combination of obicetrapib and ezetimibe. Obicetrapib, a cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibitor, reduces cholesterol transfer between lipoproteins, while ezetimibe limits cholesterol absorption in the intestines.

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Using viruses that infect bacteria to detect proteins sprouted by a notorious parasite, scientists have honed in on possible vaccine targets for schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease that currently affects an estimated 600 million people worldwide, causing 280,000 deaths per year.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 13, 2023

Capivasertib is an investigational oral therapy and a potent adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-competitive inhibitor of all three AKT [protein kinase B] isoforms (AKT1/2/3). The submission of the NDA was based on the findings of the CAPItello-291 Phase III trial. The regulator will announce its decision during the fourth quarter of 2023.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Rilzabrutinib works by targeting BTK, a protein involved in immune cell communication. By inhibiting this protein, the drug disrupts pathways that contribute to platelet destruction and insufficient production. Its selective mechanism aims to minimize off-target effects, making it a potential first-in-class treatment for ITP.

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

JULY 30, 2023

Key to this newly discovered process is GRP78, and it’s what’s known as a chaperone protein. One of the challenges in treating cancer is stopping it from metastasizing, and a new study reveals one of the fundamental mechanisms through which this happens. Now we know about this mechanism, perhaps we can stop it.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Elahere obtained the approval based on the findings on objective response rate (ORR) and duration of response (DOR) reported in the SORAYA clinical trial. binding antibody, a cell-surface protein which is greatly expressed in ovarian cancer, as well as the maytansinoid payload DM4. The ADC comprises an FR?-binding

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STAT News

DECEMBER 10, 2022

NEW ORLEANS — Researchers had hoped in recent years that a protein called GPRC5D might offer a new way to get the immune system to hunt down and destroy multiple myeloma cells. Now, the results of a Phase 2 study on a bispecific antibody targeting this protein offers confirmation.

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XTalks

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Trends in Psoriasis Research: Biologics, Biosimilars and New Therapies Recent innovations in biologics and biosimilars have transformed psoriasis care. In August 2024, Artax Biopharma completed patient recruitment for its Phase IIa trial of AX-158, exploring a new immune-modulating therapy for psoriasis.

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XTalks

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Dual-function fusion proteins represent a cutting-edge approach in biopharmaceutical research, offering a promising avenue for the development of novel therapeutics in the treatment of complex diseases such as cancer and autoimmune disorders. My initial exposure to medicine came through bench research.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Forma focuses on researching, developing and marketing new therapies for patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), rare hematologic diseases and cancers. A group of ailments, haemoglobinopathies is associated with an irregular production or structure of the haemoglobin protein in the red blood cells.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

AUGUST 24, 2022

Patients provide blood samples for clinical trial sponsors to develop and deliver these emerging immunotherapies. Flow cytometry (FCM) is the primary method scientists use to monitor immune responses in clinical trials, primarily because of its power, speed, and ability to provide a comprehensive view of a disease’s macro-environment.

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