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The Significance of the MHRA Approval and Upcoming FDA Review of the First Gene Editing Treatment

Worldwide Clinical Trials

Casgevy, the commercial product formerly known as exa-cel, is administered by taking stem cells out of a patient’s bone marrow and editing a gene in the cells in a laboratory, with the modified cells then infused back into the patient after conditioning treatment to prepare the bone marrow. In June 2023, the U.S.

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Biogen teams up with gene-editing startup Scribe on ALS programme

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Scribe Therapeutics, a start-up focusing on gene-editing using CRISPR/Cas9, has burst onto the biotech scene with a $415 million deal with Biogen. Its main platform – called X-editing – can generate CRISPR drugs with improved activity, specificity and deliverability compared to rivals, according to the start-up’s website.

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Editas grabs orphan drug status for sickle cell disease CRISPR therapy

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an Orphan Drug Designation to Editas Medicine’s gene therapy EDIT-301 in sickle cell disease, based on an April 27 announcement. The US agency previously granted the Orphan Drug Designation to EDIT-301 for its study in beta thalassemia, in May 2022. g/dL and 45.4%

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Bayer trumpets $1bn CRISPR deal with Mammoth Bio

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Bayer has bolstered its cell and gene therapy platform by securing access to a CRISPR-based gene-editing platform developed by US biotech Mammoth Biosciences. CRISPR drugs can be used to modify the expression of disease-associated proteins in the body, for example, by correcting a mutation in a specific gene.

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Could CRISPR cure HIV? US biotech Excision raises $60m to find out

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US biotech Excision BioTherapeutics has raised $60 million to test a potential HIV cure in the clinic, which would use CRISPR technology to snip out the viral code from human cells and tissues. We have proven the technology and candidate programs in vitro and in vivo in both small animal models and primate models.

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Scaling up: The need for human cells to give better access to cell therapies

Drug Discovery World

These therapies, which utilise human cells to replace diseased or damaged cells or use engineered cells to act as therapies for a specific disease, have become more common in recent years, with approvals and clinical trials increasing. It’s safe to say there is a lot of potential for cell therapies.

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Advances in neuroscience drug discovery

Drug Discovery World

According to Medicine Discovery Catapult, these include: “Navigating the complexity of the CNS; understanding the disease pathology, and accessing predictable in vitro and in vivo cell models 2 ”. For example, it can take up to it three years to recruit enough participants for a dementia clinical trial. to £104.7m

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