CaseBioscience joins an ARPA-H effort to develop room-temperature cell therapy preservation, Novartis licenses an mRNA-encoded T-cell engager from Abogen, and AstraZeneca, Daiichi Sankyo, and Summit plan to combine Datroway with ivonescimab.
|Articles|May 4, 2021
Isolation of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes from Dissociated Tumor Cells
Author(s)BioIVT
Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes may hold the key to treating solid tumors with cell therapies, and BioIVT’s DTC product line is a great source for TILs. In this white paper, you’ll read about defining what TILs are, their potential therapeutic applications, the characterization of BioIVT’s current donor pool by TIL content and the frequency of TILs by tumor tissue type.
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