Tunable cell therapies

Sigilon Therapeutics Inc. is developing allogeneic cell therapy implants for protein deficiency disorders that thread the needle between protein replacement therapies that require frequent dosing, and gene and cell therapies that are hard to dose-adjust.

The biotech’s Afibromer technology encapsulates cells that are engineered to express therapeutic proteins over a sustained period within biocompatible spheres, or beads, which consist of chemically modified alginate. ...