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AI-designed proteins outperform existing CAR T designs against BCMA tumors in mice

CAR T cell therapy, which involves genetically modifying a patient’s own immune cells to fight cancer, is a technique that has shown great promise, especially against blood cancers. But currently, only about 4% of patients with advanced or metastatic cancer in the United States are candidates for CAR T therapy, and closer to 3% will actually benefit, according to one recent analysis.

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Full-Life Technologies Announces U.S. FDA IND Clearance and Australian Regulatory Clearance for [²²⁵Ac]Ac-FL-261 Phase 1 Clinical Trial

LONDON, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Full-Life Technologies (“Full-Life”, the “Company”), a privately held, fully integrated, clinical-stage actinium-based global radiopharmaceutical company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has cleared the Company’s Investigational New Drug (“IND”) application for [225Ac]Ac-FL-261 and that the program has received Australian Human Research Ethics Committee (“HREC”) approval and completed the Clinical Trial Notification (“CTN”) process with Therapeutic Goods Administration (“TGA”).

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Nasal spray vaccine protects against bird flu in mice

WashU Medicine researchers led by Jacco Boon, a professor in the John T. Milliken Department of Medicine, report that an experimental bird flu vaccine provides strong immune protection in mice, including in animals previously vaccinated against seasonal flu. Because pre-existing immunity from prior seasonal influenza infection or vaccination could diminish the efficacy of H5N1 vaccines, showing that the new vaccine succeeds alongside existing immunity is a crucial milestone.

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