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Bacteria Tag Team Tumors with T Cells

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A team at Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science has developed a technique to enhance chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy in solid tumors. The approach could enhance CAR T cell therapy in solid tumors, which hasn’t worked as well as CAR T cell therapy for blood-borne cancers to date.

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J&J gets first approval for multiple myeloma bispecific Tecvayli

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The double-headed antibody binds to CD3 on T cells and redirects them to BCMA-expressing myeloma cells, with the aim of stimulating an immune attack on the tumour, which remains incurable despite a slew of new therapies reaching the market in recent years.

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After a slow start for expensive CAR-T therapies, drug developers revisit oral therapies for blood cancer

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There’s been huge progress in treatments for blood cancer in recent years – but drawbacks of expensive CAR-T cell and injected antibody therapies have led drug developers to look at novel oral therapies as patient-friendly alternatives. Oral therapy data presented at ASH. CellCentric, a U.K-based

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A broad range of unmet needs remains in the immuno-oncology space

Pharmaceutical Technology

IO agents include the classes of immune checkpoint modulators, cell therapies, bispecific antibodies, oncolytic viruses, therapeutic vaccines, and cytokines. Combining data from all markets, efficacy-related needs were identified as the most important unmet needs category. Cost-related unmet needs also scored highly.

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CHMP backs J&J’s myeloma bispecific Tecvayli, ahead of US decision

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The EMA’s human medicines committee has recommended approval of Johnson & Johnson’s Tecvayli as a fourth-line therapy for multiple myeloma , joining a growing group of BCMA-targeted therapies for the blood cancer.

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Actualising the power of antibody-drug conjugates as cancer therapeutics

European Pharmaceutical Review

An ADC combines the specificity of an antibody and the potent power of an anti?cancer 1 While the first successes underscored the potential of this class of targeted therapies, they also revealed bottle? Finding the right combination. cancer agent or disease-relevant toxin. Tubulis’ second technology platform is called Tub?tag

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What Tech Trends Do Life Sciences Marketers Need to Know About?

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Another capability made possible by fine-tuning is the enhancement of content tagging. Content tagging has always been a labor-intensive task. Auto-tagging ensures that the right content efficiently reaches the right customers. Fine-tuning models can target domains and generate prompts to tag the content into relevant topics.