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Biomedical Policy · global

FDA Eases Cancer Trial Eligibility Requirements: No More One-Size-Fits-All Rules for Performance Status, Laboratory Values, and Washout Periods

Three final guidances call for trial design to return to the scientific risks of each disease and drug, reducing exclusion criteria that lack a supporting rationale. The reforms could make study populations more representative of real-world patients, but the recommendations themselves are not legally binding.

Gene and Cell Therapy · global

Giving Stem Cells a New “Identification Tag” Could Help Transplant Conditioning Avoid Chemotherapy

The research team simultaneously rewrote the KIT epitope and the BCL11A regulatory region in hematopoietic stem cells, allowing therapeutic cells to evade antibody-mediated clearance and gradually increase in vivo. The mouse results open a path toward low-toxicity transplantation, but multiple safety and manufacturing hurdles remain before human application.