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Prime Medicine Gets FDA Okay for First Trial of Gene Editing Technique

BioSpace

The FDA has cleared a clinical trial of an ex vivo prime editing candidate in patients with a rare disease, Prime Medicine announced Monday. The technique taps CRISPR technology to rewrite defective genes without breaking DNA double helix strands.

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Single-course in vivo base editing therapy proven to lower cholesterol

Drug Discovery World

The trial participants have heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH), a life-threatening inherited disease characterised by lifelong elevations in blood LDL-C and accelerated atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). FH is one of the most common genetic conditions, affecting around one in 300 people globally.

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Intellia Gets FDA Clearance to Start First Ever Phase III Trial for an In Vivo CRISPR Drug

XTalks

Clinical-stage genome editing company Intellia Therapeutics has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Investigational New Drug (IND) application to start a pivotal phase III trial of NTLA-2001 for the treatment of transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy.

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

Worldwide Clinical Trials

In trials, Casgevy was shown to help prevent episodes of debilitating pain, known as vaso-occlusive crises, that often plague patients affected by sickle cell disease. In June 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its acceptance of the Biologics License Application (BLA) for exa-cel.

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Tackling pain and mental health with plant-based medicines

Drug Discovery World

DDW Editor Reece Armstrong speaks to Michael Krogh Jensen , Co-founder and CEO of Biomia, about developing plant-based medicines and what recent investment and support from the Bio Studio programme means for its pipeline. Furthermore, opiate- based medicines are often not effective against neuropathic pain.

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This week in drug discovery (25-29 September)  

Drug Discovery World

Immunotherapy has taken centre stage this week, with several announcements relating to regulatory approval, investment and research results for antibody and CAR-T therapies, perhaps most significantly, encouraging early-stage data for the first in vivo CAR-T therapy. The top stories: €27.3M

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2024 predictions: Experts weigh in on stem cells  

Drug Discovery World

Melissa Little, CEO of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Stem Cell Medicine “In the stem cell space, 2023 has seen significant increases in the delivery of pluripotent stem cell-derived cell types into first-in-human clinical trials. In addition, I believe we will see more exosome-based therapies enter the clinic in 2024.