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News and Trends 9 May 2023

Gene & cell therapy manufacturer Ascend launches with more than $130M

Ascend Gene & Cell Therapies (Ascend), a company innovating manufacturing processes to improve quality, potency, safety and cost enabling better reach for gene therapy technologies, has launched as a facilitator for gene therapy companies to help translate product ideas into clinical programs. Ascend Gene & Cell Therapies offers process development, clinical manufacturing, and analytical and […]

May 9, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 4 May 2023

LIfT BioSciences says data show potent killing of pancreatic cancer tumoroids

LIfT BioSciences has revealed preclinical data demonstrating that its immunomodulatory alpha neutrophil product (IMAN) showed potent killing of pancreatic cancer tumoroids. The tumoroid originated from a patient with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), the most common type of pancreatic cancer. The patient was unresponsive to conventional chemotherapy treatment with Abraxane (nab-paclitaxel), but initially responded positively to […]

May 4, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 2 May 2023

Cabaletta Bio’s lupus drug cleared for trial

Cabaletta Bio, Inc., a U.S. clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing and launching the first curative targeted cell therapies for patients with autoimmune diseases, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track designation to CABA-201. Cabaletta Bio’s CABA-201 is a 4-1BB-containing fully human CD19-CAR T cell investigational therapy, designed […]

May 2, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Becoming human: GMP-compliant supplements for cell therapy

April 25, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By Ute Boronowsky

8 life science innovators you must meet at BioTrinity 2023

April 20, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 13 Apr 2023

Aspect and Novo Nordisk working on bioprinted tissue for diabetes and obesity

Aspect Biosystems and Novo Nordisk A/S are set to collaborate on developing bioprinted tissue therapeutics to replace, repair, or supplement biological functions inside the body with the aim of delivering a new class of disease-modifying treatments for diabetes and obesity. The collaboration will leverage Aspect’s bioprinting technology and Novo Nordisk’s background in stem cell differentiation […]

April 13, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 30 Mar 2023

Could new riboswitch make gene therapy safer?

Turning genes on and off as easily and predictably as flicking a switch could be a powerful tool in medicine and biotech. A type of technology called a riboswitch might be the key.The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan, in collaboration with Astellas Pharma Inc., has developed a new toolkit that uses […]

March 30, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Mar 2023

LIfT BioSciences hails breakthrough data for treating solid tumors

LIfT BioSciences has announced what it says are exciting preclinical data demonstrating that its immunomodulatory alpha neutrophil product (IMANp) possesses both cytotoxic and immunomodulatory functionalities. The company said these are commonly cited by medical professionals as being critical for potentially curing solid tumors in patients. LIfT BioSciences said this involved learning from the experience of other […]

March 23, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Interview 8 Mar 2023

Phacilitate’s Women in Advanced Therapies program supports women in science

Marlin Frechette is the chief quality and compliance officer at FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific. But she has another role. Frechette is also a member of Phacilitate’s Women in Advanced Therapies program, and was formerly a mentor, and she tells us here how the program supports women in executive level life science roles. Frechette takes up the […]

March 8, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 3 Mar 2023

Beyond Biotech podcast 36: Bio-Europe Spring and Cellular Origins

Two of the interviews on the podcast today are related to Bio-Europe Spring. There are conversations with Rosie Bernard, senior director, production and content strategy for EBD Group EU, with an overview of the event, and also Jordan Stillman, project manager, partnering services at EBD Group. We also have a chat with Cellular Origins’ CEO […]

March 3, 2023

News and Trends 3 Mar 2023

Porton and DanausGT look to boost development of gene and cell therapy

Porton Advanced Solutions Ltd. and DanausGT Biotechnology Co., Ltd. have announced a strategic collaboration in gene and cell therapy pipelines to expedite the development of innovative therapeutics. As an end-to-end gene and cell therapy service provider, Porton Advanced CDMO offers solutions covering plasmids, cell therapy, gene therapy, oncolytic viruses, mRNA therapy, and bacterial therapy. DanausGT […]

March 3, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Feb 2023

Syena created to deliver first-in-class TCR-NK cell therapy

Replay, a genome writing company reprogramming biology by writing and delivering big DNA, and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, have launched Syena, a new oncology-focused product company pioneering T-cell receptor (TCR) natural killer (NK) cell therapies (TCR-NKs). Building on the intellectual property and technology from MD Anderson and Replay, Syena has the […]

February 14, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Gene & cell therapy manufacturer Ascend launches with more than $130M

LIfT BioSciences says data show potent killing of pancreatic cancer tumoroids

Cabaletta Bio’s lupus drug cleared for trial

Becoming human: GMP-compliant supplements for cell therapy

8 life science innovators you must meet at BioTrinity 2023

Aspect and Novo Nordisk working on bioprinted tissue for diabetes and obesity

Could new riboswitch make gene therapy safer?

LIfT BioSciences hails breakthrough data for treating solid tumors

Phacilitate’s Women in Advanced Therapies program supports women in science

Beyond Biotech podcast 36: Bio-Europe Spring and Cellular Origins

Porton and DanausGT look to boost development of gene and cell therapy

Syena created to deliver first-in-class TCR-NK cell therapy

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