Hematopoiesis News Volume 12.13 | Apr 13 2021

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    Excellent Outcome for Pediatric Patients With High-Risk Hodgkin Lymphoma Treated With Brentuximab Vedotin and Risk-Adapted Residual Node Radiation

    Brentuximab vedotin, an effective anti-CD30 antibody-drug conjugate approved for use in adults with classical Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), was introduced in this frontline trial to reduce prescribed radiation in children and adolescents with classical HL.
    [Journal of Clinical Oncology]

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    Minor Intron Retention Drives Clonal Hematopoietic Disorders and Diverse Cancer Predisposition

    The authors identified that impaired minor intron excision via ZRSR2 loss enhanced hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal.
    [Nature Genetics]

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    Decline in IGF1 in the Bone Marrow Microenvironment Initiates Hematopoietic Stem Cell Aging

    Scientists discovered that hallmarks of aging in HSCs and hematopoiesis begin to accumulate by middle age and that the bone marrow microenvironment at middle age induced and was indispensable for hematopoietic aging.
    [Cell Stem Cell]

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    Targeting AXL Kinase Sensitizes Leukemic Stem and Progenitor Cells to Venetoclax Treatment in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

    Researchers demonstrated that a key GAS6/AXL axis was highly activated in acute myeloid leukemia patient cells, particularly in stem/progenitor cells.
    [Blood]

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    PUMA Facilitates EMI1-Promoted Cytoplasmic Rad51 Ubiquitination and Inhibits DNA Repair in Stem and Progenitor Cells

    Scientists identified a novel role of PUMA in regulation of DNA repair in embryonic or iPSCs and immortalized hematopoietic progenitor cells after ionizing radiation.
    [Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy]

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    P300/CBP Inhibition Sensitizes Mantle Cell Lymphoma to PI3Kδ Inhibitor Idelalisib

    The authors report that a p300/CBP inhibitor, A-485, could overcome resistance to idelalisib in mantle cell lymphoma cells in vitro and in vivo.
    [Acta Pharmacologica Sinica]

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    Anti-CLL1 Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy in Children with Relapsed/Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia

    Scientists tested the safety and efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy in refractory/relapsed acute myeloid leukemia.
    [Clinical Cancer Research]

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    Intrabone Infusion for Allogeneic Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation in Children

    Investigators conducted a Phase I-II single arm, exploratory clinical trial from 2012 to 2016 in a single center. 15 patients aged from 1.9 to 16.4 years received an intrabone umbilical cord blood transplantation.
    [Bone Marrow Transplantation]

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    Procalcitonin and C-Reactive Protein Predict Infection in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Patients

    Researchers evaluated procalcitonin and C-reactive proteinas markers of infection in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation patients.
    [Leukemia Research]

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    Deregulation of Enhancer Structure, Function, and Dynamics in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

    Investigators present recent discoveries of the role of enhancer dynamics in mouse and human lymphoid development, and discuss how genetic and epigenetic alterations of enhancer function can promote leukemogenesis, and potential strategies for targeting the enhancer machinery in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
    [Trends in Immunology]

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    Stem Cell Concepts in Myelodysplastic Syndromes: Lessons and Challenges

    The clinical importance of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) stem cells has been highlighted through the demonstration of selective persistence of MDS stem cells in patients at complete remission in response to therapy.
    [Journal of Internal Medicine]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    City of Hope Enters Licensing Agreements with CytoImmune Therapeutics Inc. to Develop Portfolio of Chimeric Antigen Receptor-Natural Killer Therapies

    City of Hope and CytoImmune Therapeutics Inc. have entered into worldwide exclusive license agreements to several patent applications related to methods to generate large numbers of fully functional natural killer (NK) cells derived from umbilical cord blood and compositions of chimeric receptors (CAR) for targeting NK cells to tumors.
    [CytoImmune Therapeutics, Inc. (BusinessWire, Inc)]

    Press Release

    Arcellx Announces FDA Clearance of IND Application for ACLX-001, a Controllable Cell Therapy Utilizing the Company’s ARC-SparX Platform, for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma

    Arcellx, Inc. announced that the FDA has cleared the company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application for ACLX-001, an engineered cell therapy for the treatment of multiple myeloma. ACLX-001 is the first clinical application of the company’s ARC-SparX platform of controllable and adaptable cell therapies.
    [Arcellx, Inc.]

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    American Association for Cancer Research – Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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