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Evox Therapeutics acquires exosome AAV technology from Codiak

Drug Discovery World

This has been demonstrated to be an effective way to improve AAV delivery, to increase the breadth of expression in pre-clinical models, and to shield AAVs from neutralising antibodies. “We

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DDW top reads in 2023

Drug Discovery World

Other biotechnologies coming to the fore this year were antibody-drug conjugates and CRISPR gene editing. Three trends in the antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) market Antibody-drug conjugates are biopharmaceutical products in which a monoclonal antibody (mAB) is linked to a small molecule drug with a stable linker.

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World AIDS Day 2023: New and Promising Treatments for HIV/AIDS

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Over 26 weeks of Sunlenca combined with other antiretroviral drugs, 81 percent of participants achieved HIV RNA suppression, reaching levels low enough to be considered undetectable. In 2021, the FDA granted approval to San Francisco-based Excision BioTherapeutics to start trials assessing CRISPR gene editing as a potential treatment for HIV.

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Where is the drug discovery expertise happening in the UK?

Drug Discovery World

A company within this ecosystem is STORM Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotechnology company creating novel small molecule therapies that inhibit RNA modifying enzymes (RME) for use in oncology and other diseases.

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CRISPR breakthroughs: New solutions for common diseases

Drug Discovery World

Rolf Turk , Senior Manager, Genomics Medicine at Integrated DNA Technologies, examines how CRISPR is being used to enhance cancer therapies. CRISPR diagnostics have successfully detected various pathogens, including RNA viruses (eg. parvovirus B19, Flaviviridae, Ebola, and Coronaviridae), DNA viruses (e.g.,

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Verve starts trials of cholesterol drug in test of base editing technique

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Verve Therapeutics has started dosing patients in a phase 1b trial of its in vivo gene-editing drug for high cholesterol, designed to permanently switch off the PCSK9 gene with a one-shot treatment. dosing of *first patient* with VERVE-101, an in vivo CRISPR base editing medicine. Today: we are announcing.

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National Cancer Research Month: Celebrating drug discovery innovation

Drug Discovery World

From antibody-drug conjugates and RNA, to CRISPR and CAR-T therapy, DDW asked the drug discovery industry what the most important development in oncology over the last five years has been. One of the most exciting recent developments is the use of gene editing tools to create cell and gene therapies.