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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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A dial for tuning the immune system: Discovery sheds light on why COVID makes some sicker than others

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have discovered a protein variant that serves as a knob for regulating the body's innate immune response. The findings could lead to new therapies for Long COVID, autoimmune disorders, and more.

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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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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). Also recently, FDA’s Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committe turned down a stem cell treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, aka ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease, or motor neuron disease.

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

Alta Sciences

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Patient-derived organoids in disease modelling

Drug Target Review

This is particularly pertinent in immune-based cell therapies like CAR-T, where animals do not mimic the human immune response. The full potential of PDOs would be to shorten the time and costs associated with medicine creation, and then use PDO therapies to treat patients effectively.

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