Immunotherapy

Nov 22, 2024

NK cell therapies have demonstrated significant clinical efficacy, with studies reporting response rates ranging from 40% to 80% in certain hematologic malignancies. As of recent data, several NK cell therapy candidates are in clinical trials, with notable successes including improved overall survival rates and red...

Nov 15, 2024

Immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment landscape for cancer, offering hope for patients who have exhausted traditional therapeutic options. In the ever-evolving field of immunotherapy, two emerging approaches—CAR-T cells and CAR-Exosome agents—are garnering attention for their potential to revolutionize the...

Jun 12, 2024

In contemporary healthcare, technological progress has profoundly reshaped how patients are treated. One such innovation that has revolutionized healthcare delivery is the development of infusion therapy devices. These devices have become indispensable tools in administering fluids, medications, and nutrients direc...

Mar 17, 2023

Oncology has become a growing area of interest for pharmaceutical companies over the years. With a significant increase in R&D and healthcare spending worldwide, companies ranging from large pharmaceutical conglomerates to smaller biotech organizations are frantically attempting to capitalize on lucrative marke...

Oct 17, 2022

Oncolytic viruses are cancer treatments that employ a natural or reprogrammed virus capable of targeting and killing malignant cells. They are a new class of cancer agents that induce tumor regression by causing immunogenic cell death, inducing preferential replication in tumor cells, and stimulating host antitumor...

Oct 14, 2022

Immune checkpoint inhibitors are drugs that inhibit immune checkpoints. These drugs allow immune cells to respond more strongly to cancer by blocking them. This blocks the “off” signal, allowing T-cells to kill cancer cells. Checkpoint inhibitors can be used to treat a variety of cancers, including lung cancer (...

Jul 14, 2020

Merck Collaborates with Dewpoint Therapeutics to Cure HIV with Condensates   Merck has forged a collaboration with Boston-based Dewpoint Therapeutics to treat HIV using Dewpoint’s proprietary platform for condensate-based drug discovery.Under the terms of the agreement, Dewpoint is eligible for receiving ...

Oct 12, 2018

Gene Therapy is now touted as a new revolution for cancer treatment. If the list of new cancer treatment methodologies is traversed, then the end seems to be farther and farther away. As a sequel to the relentless efforts by researchers across the world to formulate therapies better than the existing ones, new prosp...

Sep 25, 2018

The interleukin-33 antibody of AnaptysBio passes midstage test in asthma The pipeline drug, etokimab of AnaptysBio, has positive data in a third indication that adds asthma to one of its triumphs. The US-based company gets another proof-of-concept study for the interleukin-33 (IL-33) inhibitor, because of phase 2a ...

Aug 11, 2017

Natural killer cells are a type of lymphocytes and are key components of the innate immune system. They are highly specific predators that play a major role in the host rejection of both tumors and virally infected cells. NK cells are derived from the common lymphoid progenitor cells (lymphoblasts), which also gener...