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STAT+: A Supreme Court review of a contentious patent issue would change the way pharma claims discoveries

STAT News

These treatments constitute a highly lucrative market because they are used to help the body fight cancer, infection, and a wide array of other diseases — and often carry considerable price tags. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Cartherics grants licence for CTH-004 to Shunxi

Pharmaceutical Technology

Under the deal terms, Shunxi will have licence to develop, manufacture, and commercialise CTH-004 to treat several solid tumours including ovarian cancer in Greater China, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland China, and Macao. In animal models of ovarian cancer, it demonstrated promising results.

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‘Click’ chemistry used to tag proteins made by cancer cells 

Drug Discovery World

A new method to study the proteins released by cells, which could lead to new biomarkers for diseases including cancer, has been developed by scientists at the Francis Crick Institute and Imperial College London. . The new method involves adding chemical tags to sugar molecules which are added to cells. Click’ chemistry .

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Scientists uncover secret to success in new class of cancer drugs

Drug Discovery World

Scientists have uncovered a critical feature that a promising new class of cancer drugs, known as CELMoDs, needs to be effective. . CELMoDs are designed to attack cancer by binding to a regulatory protein called cereblon, which then triggers the degradation of key cancer-driving proteins. .

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Q&A: A decade on, what’s next for CAR-T therapies?

Pharmaceutical Technology

But access to these treatments continues to remain limited due to high price tags and variable availability across regions. With blood cancers, you inject the product, and the cells are there, and the target is there. The biology is different after these products are infused and demonstrating that in a product release is very complex.

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Leading innovators in peptide nano-particle conjugates for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

Innovation S-curve for the pharmaceutical industry Peptide nano-particle conjugates is a key innovation area in the pharmaceutical industry By tagging peptides with nanoparticles, peptide nano-particle conjugates allow enhanced control over their biological behaviour, overcoming intrinsic limitations of the individual materials.

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Company Spotlight: Cue Biopharma Innovates in the Immunotherapy Space with its Immuno-STAT Platform

XTalks

To learn more about innovations in the field, Xtalks spoke to Anish Suri, PhD, president and chief scientific officer of Cue Biopharma about the company’s initiatives in the development of immune-based biological compounds for the treatment of cancers and autoimmune diseases. Cell-Based Immunotherapy vs. Immune Biologics.

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