Engineering the Immune Response for Therapeutic Success
In the first of the articles included in this eBook, Carl June describes the development of CAR T cells as “a long and winding road.” This and other selected articles indicate why this is...
Packaging and Producer Cell Lines for Scalable Lentiviral Production
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CSL Behring Nabs UniQure’s Hemophilia Gene Therapy for up to €1.8B
Big pharma CSL Behring will pay the Dutch gene therapy developer uniQure an upfront of €400M for the global rights to a phase III-stage gene therapy for the blood disorder hemophilia B.
Under the terms...
Researchers Discover Why ApoE4 Increases the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
Apolipoproteins (Apos) are proteins that transport lipids by binding to them. They also can act as enzyme co-factors and cell-surface receptor ligands. Without proper function of apolipoproteins in the body, a variety of disorders...
Investing in the vaccines of tomorrow: the case for biotechnology – Livewire Markets
Technology may typically be thought of in terms of computers and communications but its use in the sphere of biotechnology is saving lives and changing how we treat diseases. While investing in this area...
Entos Pharmaceuticals selects two lead DNA vaccine candidates for COVID-19
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Jun 25 2020
Entos Pharmaceuticals (Entos), a healthcare biotechnology company developing nucleic acid medicines with its Fusogenix drug delivery platform, today announced the selection of two lead candidates for a pan-coronavirus...
First comparison of dangers of tobacco cigarettes, e-cigarettes and waterpipes
Any smoking and vaping technique may increase risk of COVID-19 infection and death
Credit: European Heart Journal
Smoking and vaping, whether by means of tobacco cigarettes, e-cigarettes or...
Mitigating Viral Contamination, a Challenge for Emerging Therapies
Mitigating the risk of viral contamination poses a challenge to companies manufacturing new cell and gene therapies.
That’s one conclusion of what is believed to be the first industry-wide study into viral contamination events in...
Thursday Sector Leaders: Grocery & Drug Stores, Biotechnology Stocks – Nasdaq
In trading on Thursday, grocery & drug stores shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 2%. Leading the group were shares of GNC Holdings, up about 28.2% and shares of Rite...
A ‘quick and easy’ COVID-19 test developed for population-scale screening
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Jun 24 2020
Global endeavors to fight the Covid-19 pandemic heavily rely on accurate, fast and frequent tests for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 - "test, test, test", as the World Health Organization...
