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

WCG Clinical

An expected and well-known side effect of these B cell-targeted therapies is “B cell aplasia”— i.e. partial or complete depletion of B cells from circulation and immune organs. Lymphocytes have an extraordinary capacity to proliferate in response to immune stimulation. In these cases B cell depletion is a feature, not a bug.

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The challenges and trends of cell & gene therapies 

Drug Discovery World

Speaking about emerging opportunities, Carlo Russo, CEO of Genenta, says that whilst “immuno-oncology treatment has been very successful in treating patients suffering from blood cancer,” its success has been limited “by the durability of the responses”. billion, compared to $19.9 million price point per dose.

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Delivering on the promise of gene editing

Drug Discovery World

These platforms all induce double strand cuts in the chromosomal DNA that can be sealed by the cell, leading to a specific gene disruption, or resulting in a new target site for inserting DNA segments. Reduce/eliminate chromosomal disruptions caused by double-strand DNA breaks. In one example, Choi et al.

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What to expect from PEGS Europe 2023: Day 3

Drug Discovery World

Enkelejda Miho, PhD, Professor, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, and Managing Director, aiNET, on: ‘The singular immune response to dengue and machine learning identification of antibodies in high-throughput sequences’.

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