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Turning science into business: Exploiting macrophage biology

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LC : As we describe in Nature Reviews Cancer (NRC), scientists have known since the 1970s that tumours were populated by immune cells; however, it took several years of pre-clinical studies to prove that macrophages were key players in tumour progression. DS: It is now thought that TAMs support tumour cell survival.

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Who are the AACR Scientific Achievement Award winners?

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The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) will honour the following cancer researchers, physician-scientists, advocates, and journalists during its annual meeting to be held April 14-19 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Chinnaiyan’s award lecture will be held on Tuesday April 18 at 5:15pm ET.

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Connecting lab automation to decision-making

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Pillai works directly with scientists to onboard new assays onto robotic platforms, to improve data pipelines for new instruments and metadata capture, and to enable new technologies for scientists to execute on their lab work more efficiently. He also completed a Bioinformatics Certificate from Harvard Extension School.

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Reflecting on PEGS Europe 2023 

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It was by Nicholas Field, Principal Scientist, Purification Development, Lonza, titled: ‘Tailored CMC solutions to overcome the challenges in bispecific, Fab and Fc-fusion protein development programs’. To demonstrate the utility of the company’s SYNTAX system in gene assembly, the 1.7