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Torque launches with $25 million in funding to arm immune cells – Chemical & Engineering News

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2017-11-14 NEWS

Chemical & Engineering News

Torque launches with $25 million in funding to arm immune cells
Chemical & Engineering News
Torque joins a legion of companies tinkering with immune cells so they can find and attack cancer cells. In August, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration approved the first chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, Novartis’ Kymriah, to treat kids
Torque takes tumor tech out of stealth with $25M backing, new CEOEndpoints News
Torque, a Flagship Pioneering Company, Launches Platform to Develop a New Class of Deep-Primed™ Immune CellMarkets Insider

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British Biotech Gets a £2.5M Grant to Boost Cancer Immunotherapy
Labiotech.eu (blog)
Tusk Therapeutics is working on immunotherapies to ignite the immune system against cancer. The £2.5M grant will help it to accelerate their development. Tusk Therapeutics focuses on immuno-oncology to ‘harness the power’ of the immune system. One of …

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The Express Tribune

With genetic engineering and hubris, these biology Olympians compete to improve on nature
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OSTON — If there is one point of agreement among the 300 teams from 42 countries that participated in this year’s synthetic biology Olympics in Boston, it is probably this: The microbes that nature made are a good starting point, but we can do better.
Pakistani team bag silver medal at iGEM 2017The Express Tribune

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International Stem Cell Corporation Announces Positive Interim Clinical Results For Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Trial
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Carlsbad CA (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCQB:ISCO), a California-based clinical stage biotechnology company developing stem cell-based therapies and biomedical products, announced today the positive six months …