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All you need to know for round 2 of the CRISPR patent fight – STAT

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2018-04-27 NEWS

STAT

All you need to know for round 2 of the CRISPR patent fight
STAT
The patent office ruled 1 in February 2017 that the Broad’s 2014 CRISPR patent on using CRISPR-Cas9 to edit genomes, based on discoveries 2 by Feng Zhang, did not “interfere” with a patent application by UC based on the work of UC Berkeley’s Jennifer …

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2018-04-27 NEWS

STAT

All you need to know for round 2 of the CRISPR patent fight
STAT
The patent office ruled 1 in February 2017 that the Broad’s 2014 CRISPR patent on using CRISPR-Cas9 to edit genomes, based on discoveries 2 by Feng Zhang, did not “interfere” with a patent application by UC based on the work of UC Berkeley’s Jennifer …

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2018-04-27 NEWS

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CAR–T therapy could be available to NHS patients this year
PharmaTimes
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has indicated that chimeric antigen receptor T–cell therapy (CAR-T) could be available on the NHS this year, offering eligible patients a ‘ground-breaking’ approach to treating cancer. Addressing the …
New CAR–T therapy could provide safer, more effective cancer treatmentNews-Medical.net
Risk Versus Reward: The Value of Cell Therapy for Patients and InvestorsMENAFN.COM

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2018-04-27 NEWS

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New CAR–T therapy could provide safer, more effective cancer treatment
News-Medical.net
There have been few cancer treatments with such a promising future as using the patient’s own immune system. Known as chimeric antigen receptor T–cell therapy, or CAR-T, this treatment uses re-engineered killer T–cells to attack cancer cells, but it …

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