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Spotlighting Lupus Awareness Month: CAR-T Technology Creates New Avenues for Treatment of a Devastating Disease

WCG Clinical

CAR-T Cells Target Harmful B Cells in Lupus CAR-T cell technology, which uses genetic engineering to direct white blood cells to attack specific molecular targets, was originally proposed for treatment of HIV infection and hematological malignancies. In these cases B cell depletion is a feature, not a bug.

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Ginkgo acquires machine learning biotech Patch Biosciences

Drug Discovery World

Ginkgo is also working with Sensible Biotechnologies to develop an in vivo microbial mRNA manufacturing platform. Additionally, Ginkgo announced the successful completion of a manufacturing optimisation program with Biogen, focused on redefining the industry standard for manufacturing recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based vectors.

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Q&A with Mark Garner: The golden age of cancer research  

Drug Discovery World

Global Cancer Segment Market Manager at Agilent Technologies, recently sat down with DDW Editor Reece Armstrong to tell us about the developments in the ‘golden age’ of cancer research. Mark Garner, PhD., RA: Please can you tell us a bit more about your role at Agilent? MG: I am responsible for Agilent’s cancer segment.

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The evolution of assays for immuno-oncology research

Drug Discovery World

Evolution of such defence mechanisms can lead to multi-drug resistance, further disease progression, and cancer metastasis. Genetically modified T cells stimulated with IL2 are now administered as cell therapy for multiple cancer cell types with beneficial results 3,4. This continues to be the standard of care.

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Accelerating NDA filing through faster carcinogenicity assessment

Drug Discovery World

Dr Megan MacBride and Dr Caroline Horizny Mitchell , Taconic, examine recent changes to animal testing in drug design. Drug discovery and development is an arduous process that can cost upwards of $2.6 In August 2022, the ICH issued an addendum to its S1B guidelines that allows certain drugs to forego two-year rat studies 1.

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What to expect from PEGS Europe 2023: Day 2

Drug Discovery World

Ahead of protein and antibody engineering conference PEGS Europe 2024 in Lisbon, DDW’s Megan Thomas looks at what to expect from each track of the annual biologics technology meeting. Gail Calvert, Field Application Scientist, Sartorius UK, on: ‘Leveraging integrated and advanced technologies for successful cell line development’.

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What to expect from PEGS Europe 2023: Day 1

Drug Discovery World

Ahead of protein and antibody engineering conference PEGS Europe 2024 in Lisbon, DDW’s Megan Thomas looks at what to expect from each track of the annual biologics technology meeting.