Bracco Imaging SpA and Sonothera Inc. have entered into an agreement under which Bracco Imaging will provide its cutting-edge gas-filled microbubbles technology platform to Sonothera for use in the development of its novel, ultrasound-guided nonviral gene therapy platform.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) and Ginkgo Bioworks Inc. have announced a partnership to leverage Ginkgo's proprietary high-throughput combinatorial chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) discovery and screening platform with the aim of discovering next-generation GD2 CAR T-cell therapies.
Two neutralizing monoclonal antibodies isolated from volunteers vaccinated against the yellow fever virus controlled the viremia and prevented severe disease and death in hamsters and primates.
A team of researchers from Harvard University has developed a suite of Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 (EcN), named PRObiotic type 3 secretion E. coli therapeutic (PROT3ECT), engineered to secrete a TNF-α nanobody directly into the gut to reduce inflammation in a chemically induced inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) mouse model.
A research team based at MIT and Harvard has engineered a bacterial injection system to precisely deliver proteins to human cells. This work, published online March 29, 2023, in Nature, is important as while more and more molecular therapies are being developed, off-target effects are always a concern and precise targeting of cells and tissues can still be a challenge.
Charm Therapeutics Ltd. has entered into a strategic discovery collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb Co. for the identification and optimization of compounds against Bristol Myers Squibb's selected targets.
Switch Therapeutics Inc. has announced its launch following US$52 million of financing. The company was founded on the premise of a new type of RNA medicine that integrates nucleic acid nanotechnology and RNA interference (RNAi) science.