Philly drug maker seeks approval in EU for gene therapyPhilly.comPhiladelphia gene therapy company Spark Therapeutics has applied to the European Medicines Agency for approval to sell its treatment of rare inherited blindness in the European Union. The… Continue reading
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Researchers develop new way to develop purer insulin-producing stem cells
Diabetes.co.uk The future of type 1 diabetes treatment is likely to come from living cells that can produce and release insulin inside the person’s body. In recent years, scientists have been using new techniques to allow human stem cells to grow an unlimited number … |
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Researchers develop new way to develop purer insulin-producing stem cells
Diabetes.co.uk The future of type 1 diabetes treatment is likely to come from living cells that can produce and release insulin inside the person’s body. In recent years, scientists have been using new techniques to allow human stem cells to grow an unlimited number … |
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High school student gets an early start in stem cell research at USC
USC News More impressively, he was familiar with these terms before starting his summer internship in the lab of Andy McMahon, kidney researcher and director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC. “I knew I … |
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High school student gets an early start in stem cell research at USC
USC News More impressively, he was familiar with these terms before starting his summer internship in the lab of Andy McMahon, kidney researcher and director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC. “I knew I … |
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News of Note—New CRISPR R&D head; Homology $83.5M raise; Cellectar collab
FierceBiotech After jumping ship from a troubled AstraZeneca, its former head of oncology, Tony Ho, M.D., has climbed aboard preclinical gene editing biotech CRISPR Therapeutics. He becomes EVP and head of R&D at the company and will oversee its global research … |
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Chiesi Ends Collaboration with uniQure on Hemophilia B Gene Therapy Candidate
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Chiesi Group has ended its four-year-old collaboration with uniQure to co-develop and license a gene therapy for hemophilia B and has returned its development and commercialization rights to the gene therapy candidate in Europe and other areas, uniQure … |
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Increased α5β1 integrin could improve tumor cell-killing performance in geriatric patients
EurekAlert (press release) This report showed that CAR–T cells from geriatric donors have specific defects that lead to decreased tumor cell-killing performance, when compared to younger donors. The study also uncovered the Geri-T method, which increases α5β1 integrin expression … |