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    Biogen’s drug failed the key study meant to show it can slow the nerve-destroying disease, but the drug’s effect on a protein of interest led the FDA to conditionally clear it for market.

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    • FDA approves new ALS medicine in precedent-setting decision The drug, which will be sold as Qalsody, is only for the estimated 300 or so ALS patients in the U.S. who have a specific genetic mutation linked to the disease. https://t.co/0yPjN5KMad.

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    The biotech will work with Sonoma, a well-funded startup run by prominent immunologist Jeffrey Bluestone, to develop cell-based medicines for ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.

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    • Fascinating. Will these approaches for non-malignant conditions be effective without lymphodepletion? What does the future hold? Regeneron bets on ‘Treg’ cell therapy with Sonoma deal https://t.co/zzK18yB80o via @BioPharmaDive