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Natural killer cell therapy shows powerful anti-tumour activity

Drug Discovery World

Gamida Cell has revealed early data in 10 patients with CD20 positive non-Hodgkin lymphoma as part of an ongoing study of natural killer (NK) cell therapy candidate GDA-201. The post Natural killer cell therapy shows powerful anti-tumour activity appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Top five breakthroughs in advancing breast cancer therapies

Drug Discovery World

While advances in treatment over the last few years have resulted in good overall survival rates for patients with non-metastatic disease (90% five-year survival rate in the US 1 ), outcomes are still poor in certain cancers that do not respond to standard therapies. 3D bioprinted breast cancer tumours.

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

PLOS: DNA Science

In the final chapter of my 2012 book The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It , I predicted that the technology would soon expand well beyond the rare disease world. Gene therapy clearly hasn’t had a major impact on health care, offering extremely expensive treatments for a few individuals with rare diseases.

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Researchers design gene therapy that can effectively target glioblastoma

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

To convert this immunosuppressive environment into one amenable to an immune response, investigators engineered a novel oncolytic virus that can infect cancer cells and stimulate an anti-tumor immune response.

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Existing drug could aid spinal injury recovery

Drug Discovery World

However, drugs that reduce inflammation by suppressing the whole immune response also inhibit the immune cells which promote repair. The University of Edinburgh-led study tested multiple drugs in zebrafish larvae for their ability to prevent excessive inflammation during an immune response.

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My Attendance at the 2024 Boston Society Cell and Gene Therapy Conference

Alta Sciences

My Attendance at the 2024 Boston Society Cell and Gene Therapy Conference pmjackson Tue, 06/11/2024 - 20:49 , via Wikimedia Commons" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="c7a7fa8b-b2fe-4d84-a75e-d1ba3a4e2caf" src="[link] width="742" height="249" loading="lazy" /> Ecm85, CC BY-SA 3.0

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Preclinical data supports arenaviral therapeutic vaccine for hepatitis B

Drug Discovery World

HB-400, a novel arenaviral therapeutic vaccine developed by HOOKIPA Pharma and Gilead Sciences, has been shown to generate robust T cell responses specific to hepatitis B virus with high antibody levels in a preclinical setting. A Phase I clinical trial to evaluate the safety and tolerability of HB‑400 in humans is ongoing.

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