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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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Johnson & Johnson Posts Interim Results from Phase 1/2a Clinical Trial of its Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

The Pharma Data

Johnson & Johnson Posts Interim Results from Phase 1/2a Clinical Trial of its Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate. Johnson & Johnson Posts Interim Results from Phase 1/2a Clinical Trial of its Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate. Immune responses were similar across the age groups studied, including older adults.

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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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Update on CALAVI Phase II Trials for Calquence in Patients Hospitalised with Respiratory Symptoms of COVID-19

The Pharma Data

12 November 2020 — The CALAVI Phase II trials for Calquence (acalabrutinib) in patients hospitalised with respiratory symptoms of COVID-19 did not meet the primary efficacy endpoint. No new safety signal for Calquence was observed in the trials. No new safety signal for Calquence was observed in the trials.

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Merck to Focus on COVID-19 Therapeutics After Scrapping Its Coronavirus Vaccine Programs | 2021-01-25

The Pharma Data

In a surprise move, Merck announced that it is giving up on its two coronavirus vaccine candidates after seeing a subpar immune response and shifting its focus to a pair of investigational coronavirus treatments. Initial efficacy data are anticipated in the first quarter and the phase 2/3 trials are expected to wrap up in May.

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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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FDA Returns Disappointing News for ALS Stem Cell Therapy

PLOS: DNA Science

Last week DNA Science covered a setback in a clinical trial of a gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The two conditions and the therapeutic approaches differ, but their clinical trials illustrate the importance of selecting patients whose characteristics suggest that they are the most likely to respond.

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