Years of dreams about CARs turn into reality for Atara
The company’s nascent CAR-T portfolio includes technology licensed from one of the field’s most prominent pioneers.
Ash 2018 – Legend’s mystery CAR raises more questions
Nanjing Legend reveals continuing strong responses with its anti-BCMA CAR-T therapy in multiple myeloma, but relapses, a death and missing patients cloud the results.
Ash 2018 preview – blood cancers offer biotech a chance at redemption
The Ash meeting starts on December 1. Here are some haematological cancer presentations that investors will be focusing on, as biotech risks ending 2018 in poor shape.
Flush with cash, Allogene tackles the production conundrum
In the seven months since its founding the company has attracted $793m of financing. Now it must execute.
Allogene spells out its interest in Cellectis
As Allogene moves to follow Autolus onto the public markets, its IPO document could give hope that Cellectis’s allogeneic assets will at long last make meaningful…
Remission might not be the only factor in how the US pays for CAR-T
To determine whether Medicare covers CAR-T it might soon be important to find out how patients feel.
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