#ASH20 UPDATED: Loxo and Eli Lilly show off PhI/II data for their BTK inhibitor in two blood cancers – Endpoints News

ASH is back and Loxo is primed and ready to present new data that they think will be quite exciting. The Lilly-owned company is announcing results from a Phase I/II trial on its LOXO-305 program, and Saturday afternoon they detailed data in patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and other non-Hodgkin lymphomas

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Are stable producer cells the future of viral vector manufacturing and when will allogeneic cell therapy take hold? – BioPharma-Reporter.com

The publication, based on data generated from a questionnaire with 150 industry representatives, explores the challenges and solutions facing cell and gene therapy (CGT) companies over the next few years. The top six trends identified in the CRB survey were: We got the inside track from Noel Maestre, director of SlateXpace, a CRB solution focused on suite-based manufacturing platforms for the Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMP) and Peter Walters, CRBs director of ATMP, on how the CGT landscape is likely to develop in the short-term. In a recent report, the MITs Center for Biomedical Innovationprojected that around 500,000 patients will have been treated with 40-60 approved gene therapies by 2030.

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Mini kidneys bioprinted in the lab – Lab + Life Scientist

Researchers from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and biotech company Organovo have used cutting-edge technology to bioprint miniature human kidneys in the lab, paving the way for new treatments for kidney failure and possibly lab-grown transplants. Their study has been published in the journal Nature Materials. Like squeezing toothpaste out of a tube, extrusion-based 3D bioprinting uses a bioink made from a stem cell paste, squeezed out through a computer-guided pipette to create artificial living tissue in a dish

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Researchers make ‘exciting first step’ to better understanding development and treatment of autism – BioPharma-Reporter.com

The authors of a paper, published in the journalScience, in an attempt tostudy the function of genes implicated in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), applied a gene-editing and single-cellsequencing system, Perturb-Seq, to knock out 35 ASD candidate genes in multiple mice embryos. They described how the Perturb-Seq method they developed can investigate the function of many different genes in many different cell types at once. Directing the large-scale method to the study of dozens of genes that are associated with ASD, they identified how specific cell types in the developing mouse brain are impacted by mutations

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US FDA Approves Naxitamab for the Treatment of Neuroblastoma – OncoZine

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved naxitamab* (naxitamab-gqgk; Danyelza; Y-mAbs Therapeutics), a humanized form of the mouse antibody 3F8, in combination with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), for the treatment of pediatric patients 1 year of age and older and adult patients with relapsed or refractory high-risk neuroblastoma in the bone or bone marrow who have demonstrated a partial response (PR), minor response (mR), or stable disease (SD) to prior therapy.[1] A rare diseaseNeuroblastoma is a heterogeneous pediatric neoplasm that arises in the sympathetic nervous system.

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PBRM1 and the glycosylphosphatidylinositol biosynthetic pathway promote tumor killing mediated by MHC-unrestricted cytotoxic lymphocytes – Science…

INTRODUCTION Cytotoxic lymphocytes (CLs) are subtypes of immune cells capable of detecting and killing tumor and virus-infected cells (1, 2). Current cancer immunotherapy mainly harnesses the antitumor activities of cytotoxic T cells, effectors of the adaptive immune system (25)

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Some Of The Benefits Of Exercise For Those Over 50 – Anti Aging News

It has been well established that exercise is important at any age, but research is showing that exercise may have the most significant impact on older adults. With age, the body undergoes many changes some of which can be degenerative and debilitating to health, but the good news is that exercise can help to slow these age-related issues or better yet it may even help to prevent them from occurring in the first place. When it comes to healthy ageing exercise really is the closest thing to a miracle there is with its myriad of benefits that come with regular physical activity.

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