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Transforming cancer treatment for greatest impact

Drug Target Review

Research 1 has shown that neutrophil elastase selectively and potently kills cancer cells irrespective of their genetics and anatomical origin, mobilises adaptive immunity, and avoids resistance mechanisms. Could you provide insights into the driving factors behind exploring novel treatments for cancer types?

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A research team searches for every gene that helps tumors evade immunotherapy

Broad Institute

Manguso, who’d recently graduated from college and was conducting research at the University of Copenhagen as a Fulbright scholar, moved back to the Boston area to be with his mother as she underwent treatment. His mother had a presentation of the disease that suggested her immune system was already on the job.

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Antibody-drug conjugates payloads: then, now and next

Drug Target Review

Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) have been a groundbreaking approach to cancer treatment with their ability to deliver cytotoxic drugs directly to diseased cells while sparing healthy tissues. 15 ISACs use small immuno-agonist molecules conjugated to the antibody to boost the immune response while minimising toxicity.

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Natural killer cells: Looking good for cancer therapy

Drug Target Review

NK cells are among the front line of protection from infected and abnormal cells as part of the ‘innate immune response’. They recognise ‘cell stress molecules’ on the surface of infected, old, injured and cancerous cells without the need for complex pre-stimulation signals of the adaptive immune system (eg, T cells).

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Cancer immunotherapy candidate provokes powerful dual response in cancer and immune cells

Broad Institute

AbbVie and Calico discovered the molecule, called ABBV-CLS-484 , after TIDE researchers at Broad identified the PTPN2 gene as a promising cancer immunotherapy target in 2017. It still sort of stuns me that we went from discovering a target in 2017 to testing drugs in patients starting in 2020,” Yates said.

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CAR-NK cells: promising for cancer therapy

Drug Target Review

NK cells are among the front line of protection from infected and abnormal cells as part of the ‘innate immune response’. They recognise ‘cell stress molecules’ on the surface of infected, old, injured and cancerous cells without the need for complex pre-stimulation signals of the adaptive immune system (eg, T cells).

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Is Recent Gene Therapy Setback for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Déjà vu All Over Again?

PLOS: DNA Science

Gene therapy clearly hasn’t had a major impact on health care, offering extremely expensive treatments for a few individuals with rare diseases. Can they deliver healing genes without triggering an overactive immune response? In addition to high cost and small markets, patient responses haven’t been predictable.