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Grand Rounds October 20, 2023: A National Initiative to Eliminate Hepatitis C in the United States – Why This Matters to Clinical Trialists (Rachael L. Fleurence, PhD, MSc; Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD)

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Untreated, chronic Hepatitis C infection leads to liver damage, liver cancer, and death. Tags #pctGR, @Collaboratory1 The post Grand Rounds October 20, 2023: A National Initiative to Eliminate Hepatitis C in the United States – Why This Matters to Clinical Trialists (Rachael L.

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Scientists turn cancer cells into anticancer agents

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In this early research, Khalid Shah, Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues tested the vaccine in an advanced mouse model of brain cancer glioblastoma, with promising results. The findings are published in Science Translational Medicine. . CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing .

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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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Immunocore’s Kimmtrak Gets FDA Approval as First Treatment for Rare Eye Cancer and First T Cell Receptor Therapeutic

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Up to 50 percent of patients will develop metastatic disease, mainly spreading to the liver, making treatment difficult and limited. Kimmtrak has a price tag of $18,760 per vial, which amounts to a weekly dose. Related: Cancer Blood Test Developed by University of Oxford Researchers Can Detect Metastasis.

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Gene Silencing Porphyria Treatment, Givlaari, Finally Wins Over England’s NICE Amid Stellar Long-Term Data

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The treatment came with an initial price tag of $39,000 per vial, which amounts to a total of $575,00 each year. A lack of the gene leads to accumulation of porphyrins — essential compounds found in hemoglobin — in the liver. However, Alnylam recently offered a confidential discount just before NICE’s latest recommendation came out.

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Beam makes USD 120M bet; GRAIL and Quest announce the collaboration; Brain organoids mimic infant’s brains; Improvement in T cells to kill cancer

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The company’s in vivo therapies reach the eye and central nervous system via adeno-associated viruses, while its liver therapies employ lipid nanoparticles (LNPs). GRAIL and Quest collaborate for the cancer blood test. Overall, this could result in a 26% overall reduction in all five-year cancer deaths.

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Perfusion MRI and Other Perfusion Imaging Techniques for Clinical Trials

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Features of blood perfusion in the brain detected by MRI now have clinical applications in central nervous system (CNS) cancers, neurodegenerative disease, cerebrovascular disease and demyelinating disease. The other option is to tag just one of the feeder vessels to the liver, but that does not capture the full blood flow in the liver.”.