'Is that possible? It might be possible,' one biotech CEO told Business Insider.
Samantha Lee/Business InsiderMore than 30 drug companies are betting on an experimental approach that leverages the trash cans naturally found in the body to obliterate disease.
Drug hunters then screen an enormous number of chemicals or proteins for one that matches the profile, before working to enhance it and then test it out. Two especially promising ones are targeted protein degradation, which leverages the body to destroy disease, and gene therapies that could transform the human body into its own drug-manufacturing factory.
Immuno-oncology has had remarkable results for some cancer patients, spurring large investments from biopharmaceutical companies in the area.As the cancer treatments have become more widely used, though, doctors have also been seeing patients suffering from unusual side effects, like. The very thing fighting the cancer also unleashes the immune system in harmful ways.
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