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Adverum Biotechnologies Doses First Patient in Cohort 4 of OPTIC Phase I Clinical Trial of ADVM-022 Intravitreal Gene Therapy for Wet AMD

[Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc.] Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc. announced that the first patient was dosed in Cohort 4 of the ongoing OPTIC Phase I clinical trial for ADVM-022 for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Open Science Takes On the Coronavirus Pandemic

[Nature Technology Feature] When reports emerged in late 2019 of an outbreak of a new coronavirus centred in Wuhan, China, researchers at the virological-analysis website Nextstrain were ready. The open-source project tracks the spread of viruses through genetic variations in the sequences that scientists find.

Director of US Agency Key to Vaccine Development Leaves Role Suddenly Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

[STAT News] Rick Bright, one of the nation’s leading vaccine development experts and the director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, is no longer leading the organization.

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Convergent Evolution of Monocyte Differentiation in Adult Skin Instructs Langerhans Cell Identity

[Science Immunology] Using ablation of embryo-derived Langerhans cells in the murine adult skin and tracking differentiation of incoming monocyte-derived replacements, researchers found intrinsic intraepidermal heterogeneity.

TCF-1 and TOX Regulate the Memory Formation of Intestinal Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells in Asthma

[Nature Communications] Based on house dust mite-induced mice asthma models and human samples, the authors applied flow cytometry, parabiosis, in vivo imaging, and adoptive transplantation to confirm the persistence, migration, and function of CD45+lineageCD90.2+NK1.1NKp46ST2KLRG1+IL-17RB+ memory-like ILC2s.

Tissue-Specific Inducible IL-33 Expression Elicits Features of Eosinophilic Esophagitis

[Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology] Scientists utilized a tetracycline-inducible system to express IL-33 in the esophagus by generating two transgenic mice.