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Ep129: Joanne Smith-Farrell on Engineered B-Cell Therapies

The Long Run with Luke Timmerman

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The company is founded on can we get a B cell, terminally differentiated B cell. Can I engineer those to make the therapeutic proteins I want? And because of the biology of this cell, which is very different than the other cell types we tend to think of, can I do this with no pre-conditioning? Because plasma cells naturally home to your bone marrow. There's a niche waiting for them there. So yes, so you don't need your big manufacturing plant. You've got this cell that is doing that, right?

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