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Ending on a high note – Day 3 of TMM2016

Though the last day of the Till and McCulloch Meetings was a short one, it was absolutely fantastic. The day began with a thought-provoking talk by Douglas Sipp, from the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, touching upon the many issues surrounding regulation of...

Right Turn: Has cancer immunotherapy arrived?

It was Science magazine’s 2013 breakthrough of the year and called a “turning point in cancer.” It even scored its own awareness month that year. Cancer immunotherapy – therapies that harness the power of a patient’s immune system to fight their disease – had...

Update from the Clinic: May

Welcome to your update from the clinic for the month of May. Long-standing industry pioneer StemCells, Inc. decided to wind down its operations after a failed Phase 2 study in spinal cord injury. Aduro Biotech also saw a failure with its GVAX product in pancreatic...

Extracellular vesicles, the next Minions?

This post was authored by Kelvin Ng and James Smith. Completing his PhD this year in the Karp lab at MIT/Harvard, Kelvin focuses on strategies and technologies that guide or accelerate the translation of therapeutic extracellular vesicles. His multidisciplinary...