EpicentRx Word of the Week: AdAPT

EpicentRx Word of the Week: AdAPT

“Rehab your vocab” AdAPT Definitions: Noun: An attenuated adenoviral platform that expresses proteins, usually those that are immunostimulatory in tumors or other diseased tissues. Verb: to make fit for a new use by modification. Example sentences:...
“Teem” Bacteria and the Microbiome

“Teem” Bacteria and the Microbiome

Exactly how the microbiome affects human health is a question mark. But that it is important to human health is well established. Period. Or rather colon. Over 100 trillion. No, that is not (yet) the size of the U.S. national debt. Rather, it is the number of bacteria...
The Cys Sense of RRx-001

The Cys Sense of RRx-001

The sixth sense. The child actor, Haley Joel Osment, famously had it in the movie of the same name. The phrase describes keen intuition or clairvoyance as embodied by the Haley Joel Osment movie character who, it is revealed at the end, communicates with a ghost in...
On the Origin of RRx-001

On the Origin of RRx-001

The adage, “there is nothing new under the sun,” (or the streetlight) particularly applies to the pharmaceutical industry whose modus operandi is to recycle, repurpose and rebrand old drugs as new or “next generation” ones based on only minor modifications, which may...