Blood Podcast

In this week’s episode we will review a phase 1 clinical trial looking at novel fully humanized BCMA-targeting CAR in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, discuss a plenary paper reporting that different lymph nodes from patients with follicular lymphoma often have distinct clones, and finally, examine a Letter to Blood reporting high levels of markers of complement activation in plasma during quiescent phases in catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome patients.

In this week’s episode, we will examine the prognostic significance of co-mutations in IDH-mutated AML, explore an alternative method of warfarin monitoring, and finally, consider the role of tumor suppressor TP53 in determining response to venetoclax and related agents.

In this week’s episode, we will review a randomized phase 3 study of patients with high-risk peripheral T-cell lymphoma that compares results from autologous versus allogeneic stem cell transplant during consolidation, look at a report that examines the significance of ABO-incompatible platelet transfusion on outcomes after intracerebral hemorrhage, and learn about how immune dysregulation mediated by tumor interferon signaling and myeloid-derived suppressor cells is associated with CAR-T-cell resistance in large B-cell lymphoma.

In this week’s episode, we will review a prospective study suggesting that eculizumab discontinuation based on complement genetics is a reasonable and safe strategy in patients with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, examine a study that provides new insights into resistance mechanisms and immune evasion in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and finally look at a research article describing a new disorder associated with variants in the TLR8 gene that is characterized by neutropenia, infections, lymphoproliferation, B-cell defects, and bone marrow failure.

In this week’s episode, we will review a study that focuses on the morphologic alterations of stored red blood cells, learn more about how T-cell activation profiles distinguish hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and early sepsis, and, finally, look at a report that describes how the WNT signaling pathway is involved in sclerodermatous chronic graft-versus-host disease and can be blocked by available therapeutics.

In this week’s episode, we consider the role of MYC and BCL2 copy number variants in double-hit diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, explore megakaryocyte-biased stem cells in JAK2-mutated myeloproliferative neoplasms, and finally, we look at long-term outcomes with emicizumab prophylaxis in patients with hemophilia, which are even better than in the first reports.

In this week’s episode, we will review a manuscript that describes a novel inherited bone marrow failure syndrome associated with defective clearance of formaldehyde by hematopoietic stem cells, learn about the first large scale analysis of the association between cancer-specific mutations in cancer cells and the incidence of cancer-specific thrombosis, and explore results from a large screening study examining the incidence and progression of monoclonal B cell lymphocytosis in families with an inherited predisposition to chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

In this week’s episode, we discuss recent studies providing new insights on the use of minimal residual disease measurements to guide treatment in patients with high-risk ALL; the increasing risk of venous thromboembolism among patients with cancer; and the use of tocilizumab in the prophylaxis of acute graft versus host disease.

In this week’s episode, we will learn more about the feasibility of combining IDH inhibitors with intensive chemotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed IDH-mutant AML, review a phenotypic and functional analysis of the inflammatory infiltrate in the Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis lesion, and discuss the results of a Phase 3 trial in patients with hemophilia A evaluating prophylactic factor replacement therapy targeting two different Factor VIII trough levels for prevention of bleeds.

In this week’s episode, we look at the role of a previously unidentified variant of DNA methyltransferase 1 as a determinant of beta-thalessemia phenotype, report on the association of vascular thromboembolism in cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors, and finally we explore preclinical models of acute erythroid leukemia using CRISPR/Cas 9 hematopoietic genome editing.