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Innovate UK funding for new precision cancer treatment technology

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Programmable Oligonucleotide Delivery System (PODS), developed by Sixfold Bioscience, is a versatile system which delivers short interfering RNA (siRNA) gene silencing cargo to specific cancer cells.

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Novo Nordisk snaps up RNAi partner Dicerna in $3.3bn takeover deal

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Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk must like what it has seen in its two-year-old alliance with gene-silencing specialist Dicerna Pharma – it has just agreed to acquire the biotech for $3.3 billion in cash. If approved, it could become a $500 million-a-year product, according to the company.

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Vevye: A New Cyclosporine Solution for Dry Eye Disease

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More Drugs for Dry Eye Disease Are on the Way Several other drugs have recently gained FDA approval or are currently in advanced stages of clinical development for the treatment of dry eye disease. One such approved medication is Miebo , an ophthalmic solution developed by Bausch + Lomb and Novaliq.

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Advances in Genetic Medicine May Be Outpacing Some Clinicians’ Understanding, But Pharmaceutical Marketers Can Do Much to Address the Problem

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those that modify the expression of an individual’s genes or repair abnormal genes) has entered clinical practice, including 11 RNA therapeutics, 2 in vivo gene therapies, and 2 gene-modified cell therapies. Almost two decades after the human genome was sequenced, a trickle of new genetic medicines (i.e.,

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2020 review – Pharma’s progress outside of COVID-19

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In summer, Alnylam’s gene silencing drug Oxlumo, the first treatment for primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1), an ultra-rare and life-threatening genetic disorder Oxlumo was approved in the European Union and the US. It was the third approval from Alnylam’s pipeline of RNA interference therapeutics to make it to market.

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Positive Phase I results for RNAi therapeutic in hypertension

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Zilebesiran also demonstrated an acceptable safety profile supporting continued clinical development; the most frequent treatment-related adverse events were mild, transient injection-site reactions. The post Positive Phase I results for RNAi therapeutic in hypertension appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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The trends driving ELRIG Drug Discovery 2022

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As it stands, there are currently 19 gene therapies approved for clinical use, alongside 18 RNA therapies and 59 non-genetically modified cell therapies, according to the Q2 report by the American Society of Cell & Gene Therapy. Knockout’ mice are bred in a laboratory with specific genes silenced or ‘knocked out’.