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Can gene therapy be harnessed to fight the AIDS virus? – Japan Today – Japan Today

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Can gene therapy be harnessed to fight the AIDS virus? – Japan Today
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For more than a decade, the strongest AIDS drugs could not fully control Matt Chappell’s HIV infection. Now his body controls it by itself, and researchers are trying to perfect the gene editing that made this possible. Scientists removed some of his
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FDA clears AstraZeneca’s lung cancer immunotherapy
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted approval for expanded use of AstraZeneca Plc’s, immunotherapy drug, Imfinzi, to treat non-small cell lung cancer whose tumors can’t be surgically removed. The approval was based on a
U.S. FDA approves AstraZeneca’s immunotherapy for lung cancer …Nasdaq
US FDA approves AstraZeneca’s immunotherapy for lung cancerBusiness Insider

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Can gene therapy be harnessed to fight the AIDS virus?
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Gene therapy techniques have advanced greatly,” said Dr. Otto Yang of the UCLA AIDS Institute, one place working on this. “A lot of people are thinking it’s the right time to go back.” They include Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute

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How Celgene Hopes to Cash In on CART
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Chimeric antigen Tcell therapy (CAR-T) is an important new approach to battling blood cancer, and while it’s too soon to say what company will develop an approved treatment first, Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG) has a good shot at coming out on top. In January

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