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Gene editing: beyond the hype

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Cutting edge’ is, for once, a truly apt description when it comes to gene editing – both because the field is pushing medicine into areas we might never have dreamed possible, and because these technologies involve literally cutting DNA at a specific point in the genome. Zinc fingers. billion in funding.

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Gene Switch: A Novel Platform for Switching Genes On and Off

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Overview of Gene Switch The notion that genes might be turned on and off was discovered several decades ago when studies revealed that E. Gene switches are sites on genes where regulatory molecules can bind to trigger transcription process, leading to expression of a particular gene.

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Fibrosis research: Advances and challenges 

Drug Discovery World

Fibrocor Therapeutics, a developer of novel therapeutics to treat fibrosis, recently appointed Piet Wigerinck as Chief Scientific Advisor. Fibrocor is on track to complete all IND-enabling work to support IND filing and initiation of clinical trials in 2024.

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Delivering on the promise of gene editing

Drug Discovery World

These platforms all induce double strand cuts in the chromosomal DNA that can be sealed by the cell, leading to a specific gene disruption, or resulting in a new target site for inserting DNA segments. Early phase clinical trials for gene editing therapies. Gene editing challenges and potential solutions.

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CRISPR breakthroughs: New solutions for common diseases

Drug Discovery World

Since its discovery in 2012, CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) technology has revolutionised the biomedicine and cell and gene therapy fields, providing a versatile tool for precise and efficient genome editing.

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Angelman Syndrome Market: Insights Into The Recent Late-Stage Drug Failures And Novel Approaches To Treating This Rare Neurogenetic Disorder

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The first sign of a child suffering from Angelman syndrome is a delay in development, such as the inability to sit without support or making incoherent babbling sounds. Angelman syndrome is a result of the missing or dysfunctional gene known as UBE3A. GeneTx and Ultragenyx are co-developing the therapy.

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The use of base editing in stem-cell based therapies

Drug Discovery World

Kevin Hemphill, R&D Manager at PerkinElmer’s Horizon Discovery explores how base editing has emerged as an attractive gene editing option for researchers wanting to develop stem cell-based therapies. Adult fibroblasts were cultured in a cocktail of transcription factors to reactivate embryonic gene expression patterns 2.