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3rd Annual Engineering Biology Award Winners Announced – Digital Journal

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2017-09-20 NEWS

3rd Annual Engineering Biology Award Winners Announced
Digital Journal
The Engineering Biology Awards will recognize excellence in synthetic biology at the Mission Bay Conference Center on Oct. 4. This year’s Engineering Biology Awards winners include Harvard and MIT professor, George Church, Ph.D., MIT professor, James …

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2017-09-20 NEWS

European Pharmaceutical Review

Guidelines address ‘unmet need’ for grading, management of CAR T cell toxicities
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CAR T cells provide an entirely new level of improved disease response among patients with certain blood cancers and hold promise for more wide-ranging use,” Elizabeth J. Shpall, MD, deputy chair and professor of stem cell transplantation and cellular …
Proposed guidelines for handling CAR T cell side effectsEuropean Pharmaceutical Review

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New Assay Leads to Step Toward Gene Therapy for Deaf Patients
The Lund Report
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Scientists at Oregon State University have taken an important step toward gene therapy for deaf patients by developing a way to better study a large protein essential for hearing and finding a truncated version of it. Mutations in the

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2017-09-20 NEWS

Middletown Press

Man beats cancer with immunotherapy and cycling
Middletown Press
(AP) — Doctors told South Meriden resident Daniel Santomero he had 18 months to live in August 2015 when he was diagnosed with Stage-4 head and neck cancer. Two years later, he has beaten the odds thanks to experimental immunotherapy treatment.