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Promise of Immunotherapy Amid Health Care’s Uncertain Future – LWW Journals

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2017-08-20 NEWS

Promise of Immunotherapy Amid Health Care’s Uncertain Future
LWW Journals
Invited speakers at a Congressional briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., explored the benefits of immunotherapy drugs and the bright future immunotherapies represent for cancer patients. The briefing was sponsored by the American Association

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2017-08-20 NEWS

Madison.com

The Netherlands Is Taking Aim at One of America’s Fastest-Growing Sectors
Madison.com
DARPA is the world’s leading investor in synthetic biology. The United States has a network of national labs investigating various scientific questions. And several large biotech companies have established their own venture capital funds to fund new

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2017-08-20 NEWS

Immunotherapy Might Help Curb Peanut Allergy In Kids
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The researchers followed up on children who had participated in an earlier immunotherapy treatment, which used a combination of probiotics and small doses of peanuts to gradually train the patients’ immune systems to accept the peanut allergen rather

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2017-08-20 NEWS

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Mayo Clinic, University of Minnesota develop ‘robocop’ stem cells to …
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota say they’re on the brink of a new era in cancer care — one in which doctors extract a patient’s …
New treatment for deadly blood cancers expected to be approved …STLtoday.com

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2017-08-19 NEWS

Minneapolis Star Tribune

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2017-08-19 NEWS

Peanut allergy cured in majority of kids in immunotherapy trial
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A small clinical trial conducted at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute has led to two-thirds of children treated with an experimental immunotherapy treatment being cured of their allergy. Importantly, this desensitisation to peanuts persisted