The manuscript had amassed more than 50 comments about problematic figures and data on PubPeer.

The deal between the two biopharmaceutical giants will boost the purchaser’s cancer drug portfolio.

Cancer treatments from Novartis and Gilead earn approval from EU regulators, but a first pass by the UK’s state-funded health service finds CAR T is too expensive. 

Stem-cell–derived natural killer cells engineered in a similar way to CAR-T cells may pave the way to “off the shelf” cancer therapies that aren’t patient-specific.

Drugs approved to treat rheumatoid arthritis block cytokines, the molecules responsible for severe side effects from the immunotherapy, and reduce symptoms in mice.

Lonza will employ more than 200 full-time staff to work at the Texas-based facility, the company says.

Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi to take over hemophilia drugmaker Biovertiv, while Celgene will buy cancer drugmaker Juno Therapeutics.

More than 200 people are on waiting lists for the $373,000 treatment as hospitals try to work around problems with insurers. 

T-cell therapies are not just for cancer. Researchers are also advancing immunotherapy methods to protect bone marrow transplant patients from viral infections.