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Cureus
December 2024
Ophthalmology, Western Eye Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, GBR.
Diabetic macular edema (DMO) poses a significant risk to vision, primarily caused by the leakage of retinal vessels. Traditional treatments involve anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) agents and corticosteroids, though responses vary, necessitating frequent treatments. This retrospective study at a London-based tertiary eye hospital evaluates the efficacy of faricimab, a bispecific antibody inhibiting angiopoietin 2 (Ang-2) and VEGF-A, in treating DMO.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Diabetic macular edema (DME) is a leading cause of visual impairment and blindness among diabetic patients, its prevalence is continuing to increase worldwide. Faricimab, a bispecific antibody, represents a new generation of treatments for DME.
Purpose: This study presents an indirect comparison of the effectiveness and safety of faricimab versus other treatment options for DME.
Haematologica
November 2024
Universite Paris-Saclay, INSERM, Hemostase inflammation thrombose HITh U1176, 94276, Le Kremlin-Bicetre.
Patients suffering from von Willebrand disease (VWD) have reduced quality-of-life despite current treatment options. Moreover, innovation in VWD therapeutic strategies has essentially stalled and available treatments have remained unchanged for decades. Therefore, there is an unmet need to develop new therapeutic strategies for VWD-patients, especially for the large portion of those with VWD-type 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnal Chem
November 2024
Department of Discovery Biotherapeutics, Bristol Myers Squibb, San Diego, California 92121, United States.
Bispecific antibodies (bsAbs) and multispecific antibodies (msAbs) represent a promising frontier in therapeutic antibody development, offering unique capabilities not achievable with traditional monoclonal antibodies. Despite their potential, significant challenges remain due to their increased molecular complexity. One prominent challenge is the correct assembly of light and heavy chains, as improper pairing leads to mispaired or incompletely assembled species that lack therapeutic efficacy and possess undesired properties, impairing the developability, manufacturability, and safety.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Biol Eng
October 2024
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, 4-3-16 Jyonan, Yonezawa, Yamagata, 992-8510, Japan.
During the production of bispecific antibodies (bsAbs), nonspecific pairing results in low yields of target bsAb molecules, an issue known as the "mispairing problem." Several antibody engineering techniques have been developed to overcome mispairing issues. Here, we introduce "bsAb by external pairing and excision" (BAPE), a novel chain pairing method that induces specific chain pairing by fusing external SpyCatcher/Tag and SnoopCatcher/Tag units.
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