October 2016: The Antibody Update – The Nobel Prize in Medicine was Awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for His Work on Autophagy Autophagy is the cellular process that regulates a cells ability to degrade parts of itself that must be replaced....
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September 2016: The Antibody Update – A Monoclonal Antibody Against Amyloid-Beta Plaques Strengthens the Amyloid Hypothesis Aducanumab is a novel monoclonal antibody that has been designed to target the amyloid-beta plaques closely associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Specifically, Aducanumab is a...
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August 2016: The Antibody Update – T-cells Run Out of Energy When Fighting in Tumors T-cells were shown to have decreased levels of oxidative metabolism and lower numbers of mitochondria after entering a tumor’s microenvironment. It was shown that T-cells...
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July 2016: The Antibody Update – The Map of the Human Brain Grows More Detailed Researchers have compiled huge amounts of data to yield a new map of the human brain’s cerebral cortex with 180 different subunits. Of these areas,...
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First CRISPR/Cas9 Therapeutic Clinical Trials Starting The increasingly popular CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system has been approved for use in cancer therapy. CRISPR is a DNA sequence that codes for the Cas9 complex, which is able to cut incredibly specific portions...
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The USDA Fined Santa Cruz Biotechnology $3.5-million for Animal Wellness Violations The United States Government has fined Santa Cruz Biotechnology $3.5-million over violations of the animal welfare act, making for the largest fine in the USDA’s history. The USDA has...
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April 2016: The Antibody Update – Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies Prevent HIV Infection Even Through Repeated Exposure A cocktail of anti-HIV-1 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) was able to prevent infection of animals with simian HIV (SHIV) while the animals were continuously...
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A Possible Vaccine for Dengue Virus Vaccine research has shown that infecting volunteers with a weakened form of the dengue virus is able to boost the immune system enough to prevent future infections. This method of vaccination using weakened dengue...
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February 2016: The Antibody Update – The Cancer Moonshot Patrick Soon-Shiong, a billionaire entrepreneur of pharmaceutical companies, had met with Vice President Biden in 2015 about the moonshot of curing cancer. This year, the entrepreneur has gathered several drug makers...
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Multiple Sclerosis Antibody May Be Linked to JC Virus Infection Multiple sclerosis patients taking Natalizumab showed an increase in the number of cases of the neurodegenerative John Cunningham virus (JCV). JCV can cause a fatal brain disease. Natalizumab is a...
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