Tag: cancer
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Engineered T-Cell Trials Stopped after Patient Death
The Food and Drug Administration stopped two clinical trials testing genetically engineered T-cells from the immune system to treat leukemia, after a participant in one trial died.
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Simple Cell Programming Designed for Gene Therapies
A simpler technique using nanoscale particles was shown in lab tests to deliver messenger RNA to reprogram cells for gene therapies, including changes in T-cells in the immune system now approved to treat a type of leukemia.
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App Screens for Liver Diseases with Eye Selfies
A computer science lab designed a smartphone app that detects tell-tale indicators of liver disease and pancreatic cancer by analyzing self-taken photos of a patient’s own eyes.
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Engineered T-Cell Company Acquired for $11.9 Billion
A company developing personal cancer therapies that genetically engineer a patient’s immune system cells is being acquired in a deal valued at $11.9 billion.
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Trial Testing Engineered Virus as Cancer Treatment
A clinical trial is underway testing a genetically engineered virus to kill cancer cells, then stimulate the immune system to treat solid tumor cancers.
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Alliance to Develop Rare Cancer Preclinical Models
A coalition of a patient advocacy organization, research institute, and cancer research company are implanting mice with human tumors to help study a rare form of cancer.
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FDA Clears Algorithm-Assisted Cancer Diagnosis
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared for marketing a diagnostics system aided by machine learning algorithms to help radiologists detect breast cancer.
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Patent Awarded for Exosome Capture Process
A company making blood filtering devices was awarded a patent for a process to capture tiny particles carrying proteins that suppress immune responses.
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Nanotech Treatment Studied for Brain Tumors
Medical researchers and engineers designed and tested in mice a way to deliver gene-silencing therapies in nanoscale particles to treat glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.
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Lab-On-Chip Quickly Isolates, Captures Exosomes
Tests of a lab-on-a-chip system show the device can rapidly isolate and recover cellular carriers of biomarkers useful in detecting cancer and other diseases.