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Spotlighting Lupus Awareness Month: CAR-T Technology Creates New Avenues for Treatment of a Devastating Disease

WCG Clinical

CAR-T Cells Target Harmful B Cells in Lupus CAR-T cell technology, which uses genetic engineering to direct white blood cells to attack specific molecular targets, was originally proposed for treatment of HIV infection and hematological malignancies. In these cases B cell depletion is a feature, not a bug.

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Ginkgo acquires machine learning biotech Patch Biosciences

Drug Discovery World

Ginkgo is also working with Sensible Biotechnologies to develop an in vivo microbial mRNA manufacturing platform. Additionally, Ginkgo announced the successful completion of a manufacturing optimisation program with Biogen, focused on redefining the industry standard for manufacturing recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based vectors.

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Q&A with Mark Garner: The golden age of cancer research  

Drug Discovery World

Global Cancer Segment Market Manager at Agilent Technologies, recently sat down with DDW Editor Reece Armstrong to tell us about the developments in the ‘golden age’ of cancer research. Mark Garner, PhD., RA: Please can you tell us a bit more about your role at Agilent? MG: I am responsible for Agilent’s cancer segment.

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Elevating drug discovery through access to in vivo models

Drug Discovery World

Among these models, research mice and rats stand out as invaluable resources, facilitating the understanding of disease mechanisms and the development of novel drugs. Among these models, research mice and rats stand out as invaluable resources, facilitating the understanding of disease mechanisms and the development of novel drugs.

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How mice with humanised immune systems are advancing cell-based immunotherapy

Drug Discovery World

In vivo models, particularly HIS models, allow preliminary investigation of cell-based therapeutic strategies—often in combination with other therapeutic modalities—to overcome the limitations and challenges of T cell-based immuno-oncology treatments and identify effective options for clinical investigation. Jespersen et al.

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Company Spotlight: Cue Biopharma Innovates in the Immunotherapy Space with its Immuno-STAT Platform

XTalks

Immunotherapy continues to be a burgeoning field, with immune-based therapies being among the leading treatments being developed in oncology and autoimmunity. A growing area in the immunotherapy space is the development of biological modulators, which are genetically engineered proteins that target specific components of the immune system.

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This week in drug discovery (1-5 July) 

Drug Discovery World

The last few days have seen some interesting developments related to gene editing, including the discovery of a new mechanism for genetic programming and evidence in favour of redosing CRISPR-based therapies, as well as significant investment and new indications for gene therapies.