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A dendritic cell vaccine has shown excellent results in the treatment of glioblastoma, significantly extending the survival of patients with a good safety profile, according to new data from a global clinical trial. To date, patients who have benefited for the longest time have survived for more than eight years.

On November 4, 2022, the U.S. FDA has approved the marketing of mivituximab soratansine (Elahere), a cutting-edge antibody-coupled drug targeting folate receptor alpha (FRα), for the treatment of adult patients with epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer who have received one to three systemic treatment regimens and are folate receptor alpha (FRα)-positive and platinum-resistant.

Scientists from MIT designed a microfluidic device to capture and count circulating plasma cells in small samples of blood. This technique can only be carried out through routine blood drawing, which is expected to reduce the pain of patients' myeloma testing.

The global ADC drug market will be approximately $5.2 billion by 2021

It is reported that researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Piemonte Heart Institute are using customized 3D printed heart valve models based on patients' heart CT scanning to improve the success rate of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) surgery. Their aim is to avoid perivalvular leakage. This research has been published in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.

The collaboration aims to improve the efficiency of the drug discovery pipeline by leveraging industry-leading capabilities to identify genetic variants that cause human disease.

Recently, the frontier drug INT230-6 showed good tumour killing effects in the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma in the single arm phase 1/2 open-label clinical trial IT-01 (NCT03058289), and the drug showed good responses whether injected inside the tumour alone or in combination with the CTLA-4 immune checkpoint inhibitor ipilimumab.

Prior to the granting of marketing authorisation by the MHRA, Biyze® had been approved by the European Commission for a number of indications and is currently the only drug approved for the treatment of MZL in Great Britain.

There is an urgent clinical need for new antimicrobial drugs to break through the dilemma of cIAI treatment in children and address the growing challenge of drug resistance.

Carvykti gains new ground and competes with its "predecessor"!