Can an immune strategy used to treat cancer also wipe out HIV infections?
Drugs work stunningly well to control HIV—but not in everyone, and not without side effects. That’s why a small cadre of patients known as elite controllers has long fascinated researchers: Their immune system alone naturally suppresses HIV for decades without drugs. Now one team, inspired by success in mice, hopes to endow HIV-infected people […]
Cartherics shareholders Thao and Luyen Nguyen at the June 2019 Board Meeting …….
Science and Technology priorities – Election 2019
MEDIA RELEASE
8 May 2019 Parties use science to set themselves apart ….
The major parties have laid out their science and technology platform for Australian voters, with clear differences in their approach and vision for empowering the solutions sector.
Responding to a survey from peak body Science & Technology Australia (STA), the Coalition, the Labor Party and the Greens have all […]
The Next Frontier of CAR-T Cell Therapy: Solid Tumors
The Technology has wowed the field by all but obliterating some patients’ blood cancers, but sold malignancies present new challenges
The Scientist
1 April 2019 Kerry Grens
https://www.the-scientist.com/features/the-next-frontier-of-car-t-cell-therapy–solid-tumors-65612
Miracle Elixirs
A long way into the quest to vanquish cancer, our ears strain to hear the words, “Cancer is cured”- a yearning that can cloud our judgment.
The Scientist
Apr 1, 2019
BOB GRANT Editor-in-Chief
Cancer has bedeviled humankind since long before scientists even had a word to describe the dread disease. It is therefore understandable that our ears […]
It’s time for a worldwide moratorium on editing human embryos
by Alan Trounson
Hear Alan Trounson discuss the issue Saturday 6 April at 12 noon on ABC Radio National’s The Science Show.
A few weeks ago, 18 scientists from seven countries took me back forty years to a time when I was involved with the first IVF birth in Australia. Why? The scientists, writing in the journal […]
Australia is handicapped in the delivery of cell therapies, says Alan Trounson
THE promise is remarkable: a new class of affordable, effective cancer treatments beyond surgery, chemotherapy, biologicals and radiation. Imagine cancer specialists being able to select from a range of treatments to supercharge a patient’s immune system, helping it eliminate cancer.
This is not a distant vision. It is happening right here, right now. A research team, […]
Safer cells for immunotherapy
Cartherics Pty Ltd teams up with Canada’s panCELLa Inc to bring the power of safe cell therapy to a greater number of patients.
Cartherics and panCELLa announce collaborative agreement to develop pluripotent cell lines for cell therapy. Melbourne, Australia and Toronto, Canada – 13 February 2019
Cartherics Pty Ltd (“Cartherics”) and panCELLa Inc. (“panCELLa”) are pleased to announce […]
Eradicate Cancer 2020 – Next frontiers in immunotherapy
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 25-27 March 2020
“Success Breeds Success”
The field of immunotherapy against cancers is making unprecedented progress. The Eradicate Cancer Conference “Can advanced immunotherapy make it possible?” held in March 2018 was a resounding success.
It […]