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CELL AND GENE THERAPY

Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics, Inc. | December 18, 2021

Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics, Inc. on exploring the role that cytokine and gene editing/cell therapy can have in treating patients with cancer, blood disorders, and monogenic diseases, announces that Brooklyn has been added to the ICE Biotechnology Index following the December 20, 2021 reconstitution. “The continued recognition of Brooklyn among key biotechnology indices is encouraging and we continue to believe that our value proposition and approach to...

DIAGNOSTICS

Exothera | June 15, 2022

Exothera SA today announced a collaboration with LogicBio® Therapeutics and Polyplus-transfection® SA. for the development of a highly scalable AAV manufacturing platform with a capacity from 200 L to 2,000 L. Adeno-associated viruses (AAV) are non-enveloped, non-pathogenic viruses largely used as drug delivery vectors for biotherapeutics, like gene therapies and vaccines. Although the application of AAV is spreading rapidly, the industry is struggling to find cost-effecti...

MEDTECH

CosmosID | September 27, 2021

A complete analysis of the microbiome should combine taxonomic profiling ("who is there?") with functional characterization ("what are they doing?") to discover the capabilities of an entire community of microorganisms. But research teams often require specialized training and extensive computational infrastructure to establish an in-house suite of tools for processing shotgun metagenomic data – and even with the right know-how, the processing can be both time-consuming...

Labiotech.eu | January 27, 2020

The cancer vaccine developer Ervaxx has licensed a preclinical-stage ‘universal’ cancer immunotherapy based on the recent discovery of a new strain of immune T-cells at Cardiff University, UK. Last week, a team led by researchers at Cardiff University published research about T-cells capable of hunting a wide range of cancers including leukemia and melanoma. Experiments in vitro and in mice suggested that these T-cells could form the basis of a ‘universal’ cancer immunoth...