Aduro Biotech Inc.'s stock plummeted as much as 22 percent in premarket trading Monday, after a patient in a trial of the Berkeley company's trial of a pancreatic cancer treatment was found to have an infection from Listeria.
Why is that significant? Aduro's treatment, called CRS-207, reengineers Listeria — deleting genes that activate the bacteria's infection — to deliver its immune system-boosting treatment. If the bacteria, which is involved in food poisoning, pops up in patients, that means…
Aduro Biotech Inc.'s stock plummeted as much as 22 percent in premarket trading Monday, after a patient in a trial of the Berkeley company's trial of a pancreatic cancer treatment was found to have an infection from Listeria.
Why is that significant? Aduro's treatment, called CRS-207, reengineers Listeria — deleting genes that activate the bacteria's infection — to deliver its immune system-boosting treatment. If the bacteria, which is involved in food poisoning, pops up in patients, that means…