Cellectis presents way to safer CAR-TsResearchers at French-US allogeneic CAR-T cell developer Cellectis SA have designed an engineered CAR-T cell that secretes IL-12 upon contact with tumour cells. more ➔
Magenta Therapeutics exercises ATAC licenc...Magenta Therapeutics has exercised the option to licence Heidelberg Pharma AG’s anti-CD45-Antibody Targeted Amanitin Conjugate (ATAC). more ➔
Vaximm goes East for cancer vaccine deal Swiss-German biotech Vaximm is teaming up with Tokyo-based AI specialist NEC to advance personalised neoantigen cancer vaccines. more ➔
Abcam buys Expedeon’s immunology bus... Expedeon has sold its immunology and proteomics business activities to global life sciences company Abcam. Abcam is paying €120m in cash for the business. more ➔
SciRhom targets autoimmunity switch Autoimmunity specialist SciRhom GmbH has kicked of a first-in-class antibody development programme targeting iRhom2. more ➔
AMR: ENABLE selects Mutabilis candidateA drug combo breaking antibiotic resistance of Gram-negative priority pathogens has been selected under the ENABLE programme of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI). more ➔
NSCLC: Bemcentinib + anti-PD1 triple PFS Bergen Bio ASA’s Axl kinase blocker bemcentinib in combination with MSD’s pembrolizumab has met the primary endpoint in a Phase II study in patients with non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). more ➔
Transposase makes CAR-T production cheaperGerman researchers have designed a modified Sleeping Beauty transposase that can be used for non-viral, stable and efficient gene insertions for gene and CAR-T therapies. more ➔
Test detects breast cancer in earliest sta...Breast cancer might be detected up to five years before there are any clinical signs of it, using a blood test that identifies the body’s immune response to substances produced by tumour cells. more ➔
Sherlock Bioscience and Mologic enter part... Synbio specialist Sherlock Biosciences and next-generation lateral flow testing expert Mologic Ltd have joined forces to develop a no-instrument rapid testing platform detecting virtually every infectious … more ➔
