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There seems no limit to the number of different Fc variants that antibody engineers are able to produce! A new paper from scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) and University of California, Riverside describes a novel approach to screen Fc variants from CHO libraries to generate variants with improved affinity for FcgRIIa, IIb and IIIa. In particular they focus on a couple of variants that show greatly enhanced ADCC in a PBMC assay. If you are looking to enhance the effector function of your therapeutic antibody this is probably worth a read! DOI: https://lnkd.in/evbpFYkz

Just as Geoff Hale and I have finished drafting a paper comparing Fc variants with enhanced effector function another set gets published. I guess this shows that people still aren't fully satisfied with the existing toolbox of Fc variants and certainly the data we have would suggest there is still room for improvement. These new variants look interesting but why don't people run helpful positive controls in their assays?! In the early screening work the authors compare their variants with a few of the well known variants for enhanced FcgR binding but when it comes to the critical cell killing ADCC assay at the end they just compare to wild type. Surely the key question here isn't are these new variants better than wild type but are they better than the plethora of existing Fc variants for enhanced effector function? We won't know until somebody else goes to the effort of running that assay.

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Zacharias Kontarakis, Omer Revah, and I are thrilled to share our commentary in Molecular Therapy – Nucleic Acids, entitled 'CRISPR-Cas13d: RNA’s Own Jedi Master in the Fight Against Viral Darkness,' on the exciting work by Mouraya Hussein and colleagues (https://lnkd.in/eHYCtkaV). The team explored how CRISPR-Cas13d can target even the most complex RNA structures, like those in SARS-CoV-2. What makes this study stand out? Cas13d showed a unique ability to cleave through highly structured RNA, outperforming RNA interference (RNAi) and potentially reshaping how we develop treatments for RNA viruses and other genetic conditions. Challenges like off-target effects and delivery remain, but the potential here is massive. The future of antiviral therapy may rest in the hands of Cas13d, the true Jedi of RNA defense! 💥 For more details, check out the full commentary: https://lnkd.in/egR-rihB Elena Herrera Carrillo Cell Press Elsevier ETH Leibniz Association CRISPR Therapeutics #CRISPR #RNA #AntiviralTherapies #Cas13d #Biotech

An interesting primer from Serna Bio covering developing small molecule binders to RNA targets and how this may differ from protein targets - definitely worth a read. #drugdiscovery #smallmolecule #RNA #nucleicacid #compchem #cheminformatics #machinelearning #artificialintelligence

Trivia Time! 🧬 In molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases, which technique offers single-molecule sensitivity and differentiates between live and dead cells? A) PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)   B) NGS (Next-Generation Sequencing)   C) Digital PCR coupled with Live/Dead Cell Discrimination Assays   D) CRISPR-based Diagnostic Assays  #MolecularDiagnostics #InfectiousDiseases #Biotech #ScienceTrivia Sciqst, Precise References in Medicine. www.sciqst.com

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