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Mario Voigt, a leader of Germany’s mainstream conservative party, has watched with concern the slow but steady string of victories notched by the far-right Alternative for Germany, known as the AfD. In his home state of Thuringia, in eastern Germany, the AfD just last month won the district administrator’s seat, giving the far-right bureaucratic authority over an area for the first time.
The surge of the Alternative for Germany party has shaken the country’s political establishment. But for mainstream conservatives, it has also prompted an acute identity crisis.
AstraZeneca is jumping into the chase for cell therapies that address solid tumors by acquiring Neogene Therapeutics. The startup’s technology can be used to discover and develop novel targets that may be able to broaden the scope of cell therapies for cancer.