The Lancet

Tumour-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy comes of age in the era of genetic engineering

Advances in cancer immunotherapy from immune checkpoint modulation to adoptive cell transfer of tumour-infiltrating ...
Drexel University

Scaling Up Production for Viral Vectors

In the realm of gene therapy and genetic engineering, viral vectors have emerged as indispensable tools for delivering genetic material to cells. These modified viruses possess the ability to ...
Labroots

Gene therapy - Discover how it works, Pros and Cons of Viral Vectors Platforms Genetic Regulation

Gene therapy is defined as the treatment of disease by transfer of genetic material into cells, to prevent, treat and potentially even cure a disease. Gene therapies can work by several mechanisms: 1) ...
GEN

Cell and Gene Therapy: Meeting Regulatory Requirements for Lentiviral Vectors

Lentiviral vectors are important gene delivery tools for cell and gene therapies, notably chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T cell) therapies which have proven successful in treating a growing ...

CREATE Medicines Unveils All-RNA T-Cell Engineering Platform: RetroT Enables Site-Specific, Durable CAR integration In Vivo

CREATE Medicines, Inc. (formerly Myeloid Therapeutics) today announced new preclinical data for RetroT, the company's fully ...
GEN

Genetic Engineering at Asilomar, Stand Up for Science, and Francis Collins

GEN editors discuss both the news and history of DNA and genetic engineering. We present a recap of the 50 th anniversary of the Asilomar conference, delving into some of the history from the 1975 ...
The New York Times

Scientists Are Learning to Rewrite the Code of Life

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do. By Carl Zimmer At the heart of all life is a code.