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- By Jason Brauner and Anja Schempf
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In the last decade, gene therapies have been a major area of development and interest. What kicked off with the approval of Spark Therapeutics’ Lu…
- By Marc Herant
A cell therapy success against a solid tumor
In CAR-T therapies, T-cells are transformed to express an antibody on their surface that allows them to home in on cancer cells and effect killing. This ap…
- By Marc Herant
A step forward for kidney xenotransplantation
A report on the recent, well-publicized, temporary transplantation of kidneys from genetically modified pigs in two deceased individuals at NYU. The kidne…
- By Irina Ahmad
The role of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in healthcare spans a vast range of potential applications. A view of AI development on clinicaltrials.gov helps to focus this landsc…
- By Marc Herant
The opioid crisis and patient abandonment
A perspective from a February issue that I originally missed highlighting the plight of patients who have been on a long-term opioid regimen for chronic pain.…
- By Jacob Wiesenthal and Tory Wolff
There’s a major disruption looming in how the site-of-care for infusions is managed which will have repercussions for plan competition, delivery system economics, PE hunting for healthcare opportunity…
- By Marc Herant
Modern drug discovery is largely based on the identification and validation of a biochemical target, and then screening and optimizing molecules that engage that target. Over time, this has given rise…
- By Marc Herant
Gene therapy in beta-thalassemia and sickle cell anemia
Beta-thalassemia and sickle cell anemia are common genetic diseases of hemoglobin (Hb) which manifest themselves in the former through transfusi…