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Genome writing project aims to rally scientists around virus-proofing cells – Science Magazine

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Science Magazine

Genome writing project aims to rally scientists around virus-proofing cells
Science Magazine
Launched in 2016 with the sprawling ambition to build large genomes, the synthetic biology initiative known as Genome Project–write (GP-write) is now, slowly, getting down to specifics. Ahead of a meeting today in Boston, GP-write’s leadership

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Forbes

George Church, CRISPR Pioneer, Embraces Alternative Tech In Project To Recode A Human Genome
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George Church, a Harvard scientist who pioneered the use of the enzyme CRISPR to edit the genes of human cells, will use an alternative, older technology in an effort to recode an entire human genome in hundreds of thousands of locations in order to
Genome ‘writers’ set their first goal: recoding human cells to resist virusesSTAT
Genome writing project aims to rally scientists around virus-proofing cellsScience Magazine

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STAT

Corners of the immunotherapy space are getting crowded. Is that a problem?
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here’s an overabundance of copycat drugs in the cancer immunotherapy space, with companies pouring millions into developing drugs that only add incremental value to patients. That was the general consensus from a panel of biotech experts who spoke

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Newsweek

Stem Cell Research Will Save Lives, and Congress Needs to Act Now | Opinion
Newsweek
This article originally appeared on City Journal. Last month, FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, coauthored a special report in the New England Journal of Medicine

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News-Medical.net

New T cell biomarker could be much-needed patient-selection tool for CAR T cell therapy
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Penn Medicine researchers may have found the reason why some patients with advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) don’t respond to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, and the answer is tied to how primed patients’ immune systems are

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Drug Discovery & Development

FDA Grants Priority Review to Immunotherapy Combination with …
Drug Discovery & Development
Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for KEYTRUDA, the company’s anti-PD-1 therapy, based
FDA Grants Priority Review for Immunotherapy-Based Lung Cancer …Curetoday.com

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