How attacking a virus in cancer patients helped a Peninsula company target MS

As a Peninsula drug developer outlines its path for immunotherapy and next-generation cancer drugs, it also may have pointed the way toward a seemingly unrelated disease: multiple sclerosis. Atara Biotherapeutics Inc. leaders believe the company's experimental tabelecleucel — or "tab-cel" — could halt Epstein-Barr virus. That common herpes virus threatens blood cancer patients after their immune systems are suppressed following a transplant from a bone marrow donor, and Atara's dr ug is designed…
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