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Medicago, GSK’s plant-made COVID jab clears phase 2

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Canadian biotech Medicago has the data it was hoping for from a phase 2 trial of its COVID-19 vaccine, partnered with GlaxoSmithKline, and is now hoping to have phase 3 data available “by early summer.” The purified vaccine is administered alongside GSK’s pandemic adjuvant to boost the immune response.

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Zynteglo halt re-ignites viral vector safety concerns; analysts

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Bluebird Bio’s decision to hit pause on the launch of Zynteglo for beta thalassaemia after two cases of cancer were seen in a clinical trial could see fears over the safety of viral vectors used to deliver gene therapies resurface. . million in Europe.

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2024 predictions: Experts weigh in on cancer research

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Brian Gladsden, CEO, Mosaic Therapeutics “The industry has already made tremendous strides in targeted drug discovery in oncology, particularly as the industry moves further away from simply looking at tumour histology and relying more on cancer gene sequencing. In the past 10 years, immunotherapy trials have increased by 430%.

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