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On March 19, Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) announced that its dual immunotherapy combination Opdualag had received accelerated marketing approval from the FDA. Opdualag therapy is a fixed-dose combination of Relatlimab (anti-LAG3) and Nivolumab (anti-PD1) for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older with unresectable or metastatic melanoma, making LAG-3 the third immune checkpoint in the cli

Background

Tumor immunotherapies compose immune checkpoint inhibitors, therapeutic antibodies, tumor vaccines, cellular therapies, and so on. However, each has its own set of issues, such as the fact that CAR-T therapy is an individual therapy that is costly; immune checkpoint inhibitors are highly effective, but only in some patients.

The researchers expose us to a radically different way of thinking in this article: instead of working on T cells, they foc

Adoptive cell transfer (ACT) therapy is one of the most effective therapeutic options for tumor immunotherapy that is currently emerging in clusters. Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) and engineered T cell receptors (TCRs) are the main adoptive immunotherapies in recent years. TCR-engineered T cells express tumor antigen-specific receptors with alpha and beta chains generated from high-quality, high-affinity clones of antigen-specific T cells.

The TCR molecule is part of a

Biliary disease is a term used to describe diseases that affect the biliary system, which can result in inflammation, fibrosis, bile duct destruction, and eventually liver failure. It also frequently leads to secondary infections and chronic irritation, such as bile duct stones, which can lead to malignant tumors. There is currently no cure for biliary tract diseases other than liver transplantation, so new modalities of treatment are urgently needed.

Despite being recently covered by the global epidemic of COVID-19, humanity is still facing an epidemic of another disease, AIDS, with approximately 38 million people living with HIV worldwide, according to UNAIDS. Many people have died as a result of HIV infection since the epidemic began in the 1980s.

Researchers from Germany have recently developed a new technique that may

Gene editing technology, represented by CRISPR/Cas9, has greatly accelerated the development of gene therapy, bringing hope to many genetic diseases that otherwise had no cure.

In June 2021, Intellia Therapeutics' NTLA-2001, a CRISPR gene editing therapy for the treatment of transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) invented by Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna, was proven to be safe and effective in a clinical trial involving six patients. This was the first clinical trial result of

Pancreatic cancer is a highly malignant tumor of the digestive tract that is difficult to diagnose and treat, and the morbidity and mortality rates have risen dramatically in recent years. Pancreatic cancer is at an advanced stage when diagnosed when cancer cells have spread and are hard to control. The most frequent pancreatic cancer is pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), accounting for 90% of all pancreatic malignancies.

Immune checkpoint inhibitors have ha

Glycosylation is a sophisticated type of post-translational modification that impacts over 50% of cellular proteins and is a critical regulator of many eukaryotic processes. Aberrant glycosylation is a common hallmark of many malignancies and is important at all stages of tumor growth. Glycosylation regulates a range of physiopathological processes, including cell-cell adhesion, ce

Silence Therapeutics, a pioneer in the development of novel small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapeutics, and Mallinckrodt plc, a global biopharmaceutical company, announced the submission of a clinical trial application (CTA) for SLN501, a siRNA therapy targeting the complement C3 protein, on March 23, 2022. Silence will receive a $3 million milestone payment from Mallinc

Life is all about working out. Moderate exercise not only strengthens the body, but also improves the metabolic state and slows the progression of diseases. However, different times of exercise may have different impacts, and it is an intriguing scientific question how to determine the best time to exercise.

Although the influence of exercise on energy metabolism is well recognized, there is still a lack of study on how exercise timing affects metabolic state, and