A new method for controlling naturally magnetized bacteria has improved the prospects of applying them as vehicles for intratumoral delivery of cancer drugs and in hyperthermia therapy. The advance will provide a better way of directing the movement of systemically administered bacteria, using external magnetic fields to target them to tumors sited deep in the body. It also points to a possible route for engineering existing bacteria-based anticancer constructs for better targeting.

Neuromyelitis optica-related disorder (NMORD) consists of a spectrum of diseases characterized by recurrent optic neuritis and/or myelitis, with most cases being associated with a pathogenic antibody against aquaporin-4 (AQP4-Abs) or antibodies targeting the myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG-Abs).

Duality Biologics (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. has presented data describing the discovery and preclinical results of DB-1303, an antibody-drug conjugate containing a trastuzumab biosimilar targeting HER2 (BAT0606), an exatecan derivative payload with topoisomerase I inhibitory activity (P1003) and an enzymatic ally cleavable tetrapeptide-maleimide-linker (payload-linker named L101P1003).