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Orbital Therapeutics specializes in a type of therapy called CAR-T, which is a cutting-edge treatment that uses a patient&#8217;s own immune cells to fight <a href=\"https:\/\/allesleypharmacy.co.uk\/pharmacy\/product\/methotrexate\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"48\" title=\"Methotrexate\">cancer<\/a>. By buying Orbital Therapeutics, BMS will gain access to several new treatments that use RNA, a molecule similar to DNA, to help the body fight diseases. 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