In major news released this week, Commence Bio announced that the company has received its first patent for MSC1. Commence Bio is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company that is based on the concept that cancer and other inflammatory conditions can be addressed by “rebooting patients’ immune systems” with a new class of medicinal stem cells, MSC1 and MSC2.
The company is now developing a therapeutic pipeline, as well as offering research products that include MSC1 and MSC2 cells and media. The concept around which the company is based is that its proprietary “stimulated Toll-like receptor technology” programs naïve MSCs to either a more potent anti-inflammatory phenotype, or a new pro-inflammatory, anti-tumor phenotype. [Read more…]