Fujifilm teams up with Bayer on cancer drug development

Companies to test cheaper stem cell-based immunotherapy drug for cancer patients

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Japan's Fujifilm and Germany's Bayer are collaborating on tests that could make a promising cancer treatment more affordable.

KOSUKE SHIMIZU, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Fujifilm Holdings has joined hands with German drugmaker Bayer to develop an immune-based cancer treatment using induced pluripotent stem cells.

Currently, stem cell treatments are expensive and take time to prescribe. The Japan-German alliance intends to surmount these hurdles by using a new method in which iPS cells come from someone other than the patient. In the conventional method, cells from patients themselves are used.

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