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J&J Spots Potential Of Fate’s Stem Cells, Signs Cancer Deal Worth Up To $3bn

Another Next-Generation Approach to CAR-Ts

 
• By Andrew McConaghie

Investment from Janssen helps to validate the platform developed by the San Diego-based company.

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While the world and the biopharma sector are focused on solving the COVID-19 pandemic, companies haven’t forgotten the promise of next-generation cancer treatments.

Johnson & Johnson has just signed a major new deal with San Diego-based Fate Therapeutics aimed at using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) to develop off-the -shelf chimeric

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