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Immunotherapy Boost May Come from Dendritic Cell Factories
We might be able to manufacture millions to billions of infection- and cancer-fighting dendritic cells—if only we knew,…
OXGENE Eyes Further Growth in Cell and Gene Therapy Services after Acquisition by WuXi AppTec
OXGENE—founded in 2011 as Oxford Genetics Ltd. and re-branded in 2019—will continue operations under its own name as…
Preparing before Joining Biopharma’s Digital Gold Rush
Timing is key and companies that plan before adopting data-driven biomanufacturing are most likely to succeed. Biopharma is…
Putting Pressure On Cells to Kill Cancer
The ways that companies make cancer therapies keeps evolving. One example comes from Sotio in Prague. This company…
Tips to Ensure Product Comparability in Gene Therapy
GEN reporter Vivienne Raper, PhD, recently interviewed Mo Heidaran, PhD, vice president, technical, at Parexel Consulting. He spoke…
New Insights into Ancient Gatekeeper Protein Complex
Gatekeeper protein complexes at the outer boundaries of cells make life possible by regulating the passage of key…
Study of Human Brain Images Generates New Insights into the Neurobiology of the Placebo Effect
Scientists for the Placebo Neuroimaging Consortium have undertaken a systematic meta-analysis of human neuroimaging studies to generate new…
Researchers Engineer E. coli for Animal-Free Drug Manufacturing
Chondroitin sulfate is an important structural component of cartilage and is naturally found in connective tissues in the…
Microbial Cross-Feeding in Human Gut Predicted by Novel Computational Tool
Researchers, who used models to predict cross-feeding interactions in the gut (the consumption and secretion of hundreds of…
Neurons Regenerated through Suppression of Regeneration-Thwarting Genes
Using a massive screen of 400 mouse genes, Yale School of Medicine researchers identified 40 genes that thwart…
