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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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Elevating drug discovery through access to in vivo models

Drug Discovery World

At Taconic Biosciences, we are dedicated to advancing drug discovery by providing researchers with straightforward access to the most sophisticated research models engineered to meet the highest genetic, health, and quality standards. This paid-for advertorial by Taconic Biosciences appeared in DDW Volume 25 – Issue 3, Summer 2024.

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

Drug Discovery World

For example, in CAR-T-cell therapy, scientists can take T-cells from a patient and ex vivo (outside the body) genetically engineer them to effectively target and kill cancerous cells, then infuse them back in to the patient. Mark Garner, PhD., RA: Please can you tell us a bit more about your role at Agilent?

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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

With several biologics in the pipeline, including one in early stage clinical trials for head and neck cancer, the company is positioned to engineer highly specific biologics against immune targets in the body. Cell-Based Immunotherapy vs. Immune Biologics. Immunotherapy involves leveraging components of the immune system (i.e.

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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.