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Bullet: Idiotype builder

Bullet thinks autologous idiotype cancer vaccine can work where others failed

March 24, 2014 7:00 AM UTC

Bullet Biotechnology Inc. is using new sequencing and manufacturing methods to develop an idiotype cancer vaccine that it anticipates will be more effective than first-generation products.

President and CEO Willie Quinn said the first wave of idiotype vaccines established proof of principle by showing that an epitope lifted from the clonal immunoglobulin region of a patient's malignant B cells can be reintroduced along with an immune stimulator and engender an immune response against the cancerous cells...