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CAR-T Trials Boast Promising Results – The Scientist

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2017-06-06 NEWS

CART Trials Boast Promising Results
The Scientist
Multiple myeloma cellsWIKIMEDIA, KGHNanjing Legend Biotech’s chimeric antigen receptor Tcell (CAR-T) therapy induced some level of remission within two months in 33 of 35 multiple myeloma patients in an ongoing clinical trial, according to results …

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Voyager Selects Gene Therapy Candidate for Huntington’s Clinical Trials
Huntington’s Disease News
Voyager Therapeutics has a new candidate for the treatment of Huntington’s disease. The selected gene therapy is called VY-HTT01 and aims to prevent the production of protein from the mutant huntingtin gene (HTT). The compound is now undergoing …

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2017-06-06 NEWS

CART Cells Produce 100% ORR in Advanced Multiple Myeloma
Clinical Oncology News
Chicago—In an early clinical experience, a novel autologous chimeric antigen receptor T (CART) cell therapy resulted in a remarkable 100% objective response rate (ORR) in multiple myeloma. In patients with a follow-up of at least four months, all

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2017-06-06 NEWS

Healthline

Using Stem Cells to Heal Broken Bones
Healthline
“We are just at the beginning of a revolution in orthopedics,” Dan Gazit, co-director of the Skeletal Regeneration and Stem Cell Therapy Program in the Department of Surgery and the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute, said

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UIC Launches Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Newswise (press release)
Newswise — The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine will launch a new center that will focus on understanding tissue regeneration and pioneering future developments in stem cell biology as a means to repair diseased organs and tissues.

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Futurism

A New Gene Therapy Could Hold the Key to Curing Allergies and Asthma
Futurism
Scientists from the University of Queensland have used gene therapy to turn off the immune response responsible for asthma. The team believes their technique may also be able to permanently silence severe allergy responses to common allergens such as …
Gene therapy could wipe immune memory and “turn off” severe …New Atlas
New gene therapy may ‘turn off’ asthmaThe Indian Express
A New Gene Therapy that Can “Turn Off” Asthma and Food AllergiesNDTV Food
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