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Lilly takes over partner working on cell therapies for diabetes

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Sigilon Therapeutics, a biotech that’s been collaborating with Lilly since 2018, has agreed to be bought for up to $310 million in the pharma’s second announced buyout this month.

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Gene editing extends lifespan in mouse model of prion disease

Broad Institute

In 2018, Liu, who works on the same floor as Minikel and Vallabh at Broad, approached them and proposed a collaboration. Theres still a long way to go to make this a therapy, Minikel said. Tags: Neurodegeneration Rare Disease Gene therapy Minikel remembers thinking, Theres something really promising there. Nature Medicine.

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Gamma delta T cells: a rising star in cancer therapy

Drug Target Review

Over the past 25 years, T-cell therapies have gained significant ground in the treatment of cancer. Preclinical research on γδ T cells has made great strides since the cells were first identified in the 1980s, with γδ T-cell therapies from several companies, including IN8bio, now in or nearing clinical trials for various cancers.

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Older Siblings Made Possible Just-Approved Gene Therapy for Metachromatic Leukodystrophy

PLOS: DNA Science

The Food and Drug Administration just announced approval of Lenmeldy (atidarsagene autotemcel), a gene therapy to treat the neurological condition metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD). The history of gene therapy for MLD is compelling – DNA Science covered it for Rare Disease Day in 2021, here. She passed away in 2013.

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Decoding cell therapy variants with Dr Andy Bader

Drug Target Review

Could you explain the fundamental distinction between autologous and allogeneic cell therapies and how they differ in terms of cell sourcing and application? Autologous immune cell therapy involves the grafting of a patient’s own immune cells. Then, cells are infused back to that same patient.” There are pros and cons to each.

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The evolution of cell therapy to address unmet medical needs

Drug Target Review

The mission of Lineage Cell Therapeutics is to deliver on some of the early promises of cell therapy. Cell therapy as a concept is a wonderful idea, but many of the early efforts never generated the kind of clinical data that gets people excited and leads to new medicines. In some cases, cell therapy can be curative for the patient.

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5 ways to lower clinical trial patient recruitment costs

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Between 2009 and 2018, U.S. billion to bring a new therapy to market. The process of getting a new drug to market is an expensive one. biopharmaceutical companies spent about $1 billion per drug according to an analysis published in JAMA , and other studies have found that it can cost up to $2.8