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Startups Working in ALS, Immunotherapy Win ‘Amgen Golden Tickets’ to Advance Discoveries – ALS News Today

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2017-12-20 NEWS

Startups Working in ALS, Immunotherapy Win ‘Amgen Golden Tickets’ to Advance Discoveries
ALS News Today
Two young companies, QurAlis and Kernal Biologics, are winners of the Amgen Golden Tickets for innovative bioscience projects — in this case, work that might lead to better treatments in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and cancer immunotherapy

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2017-12-20 NEWS

FierceBiotech

Singapore’s Tessa raises $80M for T cell therapy push
FierceBiotech
The VST approach has some similarities with autologous CART therapies, and involves harvesting white blood cells from peripheral blood, stimulating them to proliferate and respond to tumor cells expressing viral antigens, and then infusing the cells
Parker Institute-allied Tessa grabs an $80M round for its next-gen cancer cell therapiesEndpoints News

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2017-12-20 NEWS

Gene therapy success raises hopes for approach in Rett syndrome
Spectrum
Delivering a healthy copy of a gene mutated in children with spinal muscular atrophy dramatically improved the children’s survival and symptoms in a small clinical trial. The trial’s success suggests gene therapy might treat single-gene conditions

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2017-12-20 NEWS

Gene therapy success raises hopes for approach in Rett syndrome
Spectrum
Delivering a healthy copy of a gene mutated in children with spinal muscular atrophy dramatically improved the children’s survival and symptoms in a small clinical trial. The trial’s success suggests gene therapy might treat single-gene conditions

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2017-12-20 NEWS

NBC New York

Happening Today: Tax Bill, Cardinal Bernard Law, Amtrak, Gene Therapy, ‘Me Too’
NBC New York
U.S. health officials approved the nation’s first gene therapy for an inherited disease, a treatment that improves the sight of patients with a rare form of blindness. It marks another major advance for the emerging field of genetic medicine. The

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2017-12-20 NEWS

NBC New York

Happening Today: Tax Bill, Cardinal Bernard Law, Amtrak, Gene Therapy, ‘Me Too’
NBC New York
U.S. health officials approved the nation’s first gene therapy for an inherited disease, a treatment that improves the sight of patients with a rare form of blindness. It marks another major advance for the emerging field of genetic medicine. The

and more »