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Cancer researchers learn more about toxic side effects of new treatments – Washington Post

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2017-10-12 NEWS

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Cancer researchers learn more about toxic side effects of new treatments
Washington Post
The new cancer treatment, called CAR T-cell therapy, involves extracting immune cells called T cells from the patient, genetically modifying them to attack the cancer, and returning them to the patient’s body. One such treatment has been approved for
Biomarkers may help ID patients at increased risk of neurotoxicity from CD19 CAR T-cell therapyEurekAlert (press release)
New study could point to solution for deadly immunotherapy side effectsGeekWire
CART cancer therapy is potent, but can be lethal. New research helps explain whySTAT

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Medical Xpress

Studies advance methods to avert toxicity that can accompany immunotherapy
Medical Xpress
The first CAR T-cell product was recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat certain leukemias. That product, like the one studied by the Fred Hutch team, reprograms patients’ immune cells to kill blood cancer cells bearing a

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Medical Xpress

New study could point to solution for deadly immunotherapy side effects
GeekWire
The study, which was based on a clinical trial of 133 patients, is the largest to date on the side effects of CAR T immunotherapy. It was published early Thursday in the journal Cancer Discovery. “It’s essential that we understand the potential side
Studies advance methods to avert toxicity that can accompany immunotherapyMedical Xpress
CAR-T cancer therapy is potent, but can be lethal. New research helps explain whySTAT
Fred Hutch studies advance methods to avert toxicity that can accompany immunotherapyEurekAlert (press release)
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Economic Times

Government imposes restrictions on stem cell banking, therapy to curb “rampant” unethical practices
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: The government’s latest guidelines on stem cell research has imposed restrictions on stem cell banking and therapeutic use in a move to check “rampant” unethical practices in this field and safeguard patients receiving such treatments.

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2017-10-11 NEWS

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With GMO Struggle In Mind, Food Industry Vying For Public Trust With CRISPR Discussion
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The technology is called Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, or CRISPR. It’s a technique that Alison Van Eenennaam, an animal genetics professor at University of California, Davis, says can de-activate a gene. Or, as she puts it