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Why brain cancer is often resistant to immunotherapy

Broad Institute

So the researchers used a method developed at the Broad Institute in 2019 called consensus non-negative matrix factorization (cNMF) , which can define cells by their identity and activity independently. With this approach, the team identified four programs shaping the immune system.

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Lilly and Kumquat Biosciences Announce Collaboration to Discover and Develop Novel Small Molecules that Stimulate Tumor-Specific Immune Responses

The Pharma Data

Loxo Oncology at Lilly, a research and development group of Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY), and Kumquat Biosciences today announced an exclusive collaboration focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of potential novel small molecules that stimulate tumor-specific immune responses.

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Advancing vaccine design: potential of peptide mimicry

Drug Target Review

Since December 2019, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection has become a worldwide urgent public health concern. 1 The study reveals a novel bioinformatic approach and tool that holds the potential to empower researchers in designing vaccines capable of inducing a stronger immune response.

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Antibody-drug conjugates payloads: then, now and next

Drug Target Review

More recently, researchers have begun to look at conjugating immunomodulatory agents to antibodies to directly activate an immune response against the tumour. This approach – immune-stimulating antibody conjugates (ISACs) – uses a payload that stimulates the innate and adaptive immune responses, recruiting tumour-fighting T cells.

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

PLOS: DNA Science

Can they deliver healing genes without triggering an overactive immune response? The details are disturbingly reminiscent of the famous case of Jesse Gelsinger , who died from a ferocious immune response to experimental gene therapy in September 1999. An immune response is two-tiered.

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Finding Antibodies that Neutralize SARS-CoV-2

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

It’s now clear that nearly everyone who recovers from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) produces antibodies that specifically target SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes the infection. But there is a catch: 99 percent of the study’s participants didn’t make enough neutralizing antibodies to mount an ideal immune response.

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Unveiling neoantigen-directed cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

This exclusive interview with Dr Sharon Benzeno, Chief Commercial Officer, Immune Medicine at Adaptive Biotechnologies, unveils some ground-breaking research on T- cell therapy for cancer , which has seen the first TCR-based therapeutic candidate progress to clinical development, offering promising advancements in innovative cancer treatments.

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