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HLTH 2022 – Day 2

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The day will continue with other hot topics for pharma, including health equity, cell and gene therapy, oncology, and pharmacy model disruption. Then we’ll hear from Aptar Digital Health’s Sai Shankar and Pierre Laurent in a session all about patients as partners in healthcare.

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AZ, Scorpion strike deal on elusive transcription factor targets in cancer

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AstraZeneca has expanded its efforts to develop new therapies targeting transcription factors – proteins that regulate processes in the cell that have become a hot topic for drug discovery in cancer and other diseases.

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Protein misfolding specialist Gain nets $40m from IPO

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The company has developed a toolkit called Site-Directed Enzyme Enhancement Therapy or SEE-Tx, which uses computational techniques to find small-molecule drugs that are able to bind to sites on misfolded proteins, restore their shape and function and in some cases prevent them clumping together.

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CRISPR therapies targeting the next breakthrough in oncology

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The potential of CRISPR technology has been a hot topic in the industry ever since it was first developed, but as trials progress further into the clinic, what therapeutic areas could be set to benefit? coli, and their research in turn formed the foundation for the CRISPR-based therapies being explored to create new treatment options.

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Histamine and Hashimoto’s

The Thyroid Pharmacist

Histamine is an important chemical in the immune system that is released by cells during hypersensitivity or inflammatory reactions. [1] Histamine causes the contraction of smooth muscles and the dilation of blood vessels, which allow immune cells to travel to the site of the perceived attack.

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Air Quality and Hashimoto’s – Is the Air You’re Breathing Making You Sick?

The Thyroid Pharmacist

First, many people with Hashimoto’s have a genetic predisposition ( the MTHFR gene ) that results in poor detoxification; second, they are more prone to having an overburdened liver; third, they are prone to certain nutrient deficiencies that impact the body’s ability to detoxify itself. There are a few reasons for this. Boulardii – S.

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How Balancing Iron Levels Can Help Your Thyroid

The Thyroid Pharmacist

In full disclosure, I sort of dove into a rabbit hole with this topic. Anemia by definition is having a low level of red blood cells. The body needs red blood cells in order to get oxygen from the lungs, to the rest of the body. Red blood cells carry hemoglobin, a complex protein that contains iron molecules.