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How do different types of vaccines work?
What is a vaccine?
A vaccine is a pharmacological product that gives the recieving patient's immune system a chance to learn how to fight infection with decreased risk of illness. Vacci
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21st Apr 2022
What is pharmacogenomics?
What is pharmacogenomics
Pharmacogenomics is how DNA variation and drugs interact and how this can optimise patient health; this involves studying pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
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10th Apr 2022
Novel Gene Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis
Novel Gene Therapies for Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive, life-limiting disease resulting from gene mutations that encode the cystic fibr
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6th Apr 2022
Pyroptosis: A Promising Target for Immunotherapy
Pyroptosis is an immunogenic form of cell death, meaning that it triggers an immune response. This makes pyroptosis a potentially promising target for immunotherapies that aim to boo
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22nd Mar 2022
Immunotherapy: The Side Effects You Need to Know
Immunotherapy is a new and exciting treatment for cancer, but it's not without its risks. In this blog post, we will discuss the side effects of immunotherapy and what you need to kn
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14th Mar 2022
The Lenti Viral Vector System: A New Way to Deliver Genetic Therapies
A new way to deliver genetic therapies is making waves in the medical world. The lenti virus vector system has been shown to be more effective than traditional methods of gene therap
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11th Mar 2022
PD-1 & PD-L1 Inhibitors
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21st Jan 2022
Antigen Presenting Cells (APCs) and cancer immunotherapy
What is antigen presentation?
Our immune system has various ways to protect us from pathogens. One of them is adaptive immunity; it mount
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18th Jan 2022
Anti-CTLA-4 Immunotherapy
CD Markers
Cluster of Differentiation (CD) markers play an important role in the differentiation of B cells, T cells and NK (natural killer) ce
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11th Jan 2022
Galectin Therapeutics
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, irreversible and ultimately fatal disease characterized by prog
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27th Sep 2021
Immunometabolism – A therapeutic perspective
What is Immunometabolism?
Immunometabolism is an exponentially growing, multi-disciplinary field of research aiming at deciphering the dynamic
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2nd Sep 2021
TLX as a Novel Therapeutic Target
Danka Kozareva PhD Candidate, University College Cork
The generation of neurons from stem cells
The process of generating
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