National ReviewCRISPR Will Make GMOs UbiquitousNational ReviewScientists are experimenting with genetically modified rice and wheat varieties that have the potential to increase yields by 50 percent. Researchers are close to increasing the efficiency o… Continue reading
Could the Microbiome Treat Side Effects of Stem Cell Transplants?Labiotech.eu (blog)MaaT Pharma, based in Lyon, has received authorization to launch a Phase II trial for its therapy, which targets the gut microbiota to treat complications from stem cel… Continue reading
Study finds the heart can terminate atrial fibrillation itself after local gene therapyEuropean Society of Cardiology (press release)Barcelona, Spain – 19 March 2018: The heart is capable of terminating arrhythmias itself after local gene therapy, pote… Continue reading
Proactive Investors UKWideCells granted Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership for stem cell technologyProactive Investors UKThe new technology allows specialised adult cells such as skin cells to be genetically reprogrammed to assume a stem cell-l… Continue reading
Adjuvant recMAGE-A3 Immunotherapy After Cystectomy for Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer: Lessons Learned from …UroTodayThe MAGNOLIA study, investigating the concept of perioperative immunotherapy in muscle- invasive bladder cancer, was prematurely term… Continue reading
eTheRNA Completes Enrolment of Low Dose Cohort for Phase 1b Study of TriMix mRNA-based Cancer Specific …PR Newswire (press release)Clinical proof of concept for TriMix-based immunotherapies has been established through an extensive dataset demonstrat… Continue reading
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Prior chemotherapies may impair ability to develop effective CAR T-cells
Medical Xpress “This therapy takes a patient’s own immune cells, called T cells, and modifies them in the lab to wake them up and recognize that patient’s leukemia. “In several of the patients with leukemia we first attempted to treat, we noticed the T cells looked … |