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A New Cancer Treatment Is on the Way — and Cancer Better Be Scared – Nasdaq

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2017-07-14 NEWS

Nasdaq

A New Cancer Treatment Is on the Way — and Cancer Better Be Scared
Nasdaq
Chimeric antigen receptor Tcell therapy, or CAR-T, is a new approach involving the re-engineering of a patient’s Tcells so that they can better find and destroy cancer cells. Tcells are collected from a patient, sent off to a facility where they are

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2017-07-14 NEWS

Quartz

Marc Andreessen says he’s reading these eight provocative books to better understand our world
Quartz
… “what do nerds do on nights and weekend,” what he called the single most reliable source of new ideas adopted by the broader culture and economy (if interested, check out cryptocurrency, biohacking, quantified self, synthetic biology, virtual

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2017-07-13 NEWS

Stand Up To Cancer, St. Baldrick’s Foundation hail green light for CAR T cell therapy
EurekAlert (press release)
“SU2C and the St. Baldrick’s Foundation have committed millions of dollars to the development of the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy,” said Sung Poblete, PhD, RN, president and CEO of SU2C. “The Dream Team has especially investigated …

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2017-07-13 NEWS

Stand Up To Cancer, St. Baldrick’s Foundation hail green light for CAR T cell therapy
EurekAlert (press release)
“SU2C and the St. Baldrick’s Foundation have committed millions of dollars to the development of the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy,” said Sung Poblete, PhD, RN, president and CEO of SU2C. “The Dream Team has especially investigated …

and more »

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2017-07-13 NEWS

CBS New York

FDA Panel Approves Immunotherapy Program To Fight Cancer
CBS New York
“Now, in addition to chemo, radiation and surgery, this is the fourth thing – immunotherapy,” he said. In the lab, the patient’s own immune T-cells are genetically modified by a virus to recognize the patient’s cancer. Then, those custom-made white