STAT News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Moderna is aiming to build a gene editing franchise powered by some of the same technologies used in its COVID-19 vaccines. The Cambridge biotech company announced Wednesday that it will partner with Life Edit Therapeutics to develop potentially permanent treatments for rare genetic diseases and other conditions.

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XTalks

MAY 22, 2024

In this episode, Ayesha spoke with John Finn, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Tome Biosciences , a company developing programmable gene insertion (PGI) technology. PGI is a cutting-edge gene editing technology that allows for the insertion of large sequences of DNA with site-specific precision.

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BioTech 365

MARCH 2, 2021

ERS Genomics Licenses CRISPR Gene Editing Technology to Otsuka Pharmaceutical ERS Genomics Licenses CRISPR Gene Editing Technology to Otsuka Pharmaceutical License to Nobel prize winning CRISPR technology supports internal research and development DUBLIN, Ireland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed … Continue reading (..)

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As gene editing technologies like CRISPR progress toward clinical study, researchers must continue to advance new approaches and address inherent challenges, explains Jon Chesnut, PhD, Senior Director, Cell Biology R&D, Thermo Fisher Scientific. Early phase clinical trials for gene editing therapies.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 11, 2023

Genomic studies of cancer patients have revealed thousands of mutations linked to tumor development. However, for the vast majority of those mutations, researchers are unsure of how they contribute to cancer because there's no easy way to study them in animal models.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Expanding upon the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system, researchers at MIT have designed a new technique called PASTE gene editing that can cut out defective genes and replace them with new genes in a safer and more efficient way. The PASTE gene editing technique was recently published in Nature Biotechnology.

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Roots Analysis

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The global genome editing market is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 12.6% The global genome editing market is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 12.6% The biopharmaceutical pipeline includes close to 500 gene therapies , several of which are being developed based on CRISPR technology.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 12, 2023

Oksana Sirenko looks at the advantages and limitations of using organoids from human cell sources in drug development and drug screening. . The genome is the blueprint for life, consisting of genes made up of thousands of pairs of DNA bases. What are organoids? .

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Roots Analysis

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Presently, there are several companies and universities, which are exploring the potential of different gene editing technologies beyond CRISPR for basic research, and the development of gene editing solutions. Genome Editing is a way of making changes in the DNA.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 4, 2022

AstraZeneca’s rare disease firm Alexion is set to expand its genomic medicine portfolio with the acquisition of gene editing specialist LogicBio Therapeutics, in a deal worth approximately $68 million. The post AstraZeneca pays record 660% premium for gene editing company LogicBio appeared first on.

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Drug Discovery Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The country now hosts the EMBL Partnership Institute for Genome Editing Technologies at the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center aiming to advance gene editing technologies. Six international research groups work at the EMBL Partnership Institute in Vilnius, each tackling a different facet of gene editing.

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The meeting will focus on the application of genome engineering in identification of novel drug targets through large-scale CRISPR based functional genomics studies, developing advanced cellular and in vivo disease models for target validation, and its applications in therapeutic genome editing. Register here.

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Gene editing company Eligo Bioscience has announced a successful $30 million Series B funding round, led by Sanofi Ventures. “We The funding is earmarked for accelerating the development of Eligo’s flagship programme, EB005, which targets moderate to severe acne vulgaris.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 18, 2023

A pioneering scientific site, strategically located At the Cambridge site, Revvity delivers cell line engineering and screening services to improve the outcomes of drug development through enhanced target selection and pre-clinical screening.

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BioTech 365

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: Researchers develop an engineered ‘mini’ CRISPR genome editing system.The common analogy for CRISPR gene editing is that it works like molecular scissors, cutting out select sections of … Continue reading → (..)

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 9, 2023

The post FDA clears in vivo gene editing therapy for trials in US appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW). The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Intellia Therapeutics’ Investigational New Drug (IND) application for NTLA-2002 for the treatment of hereditary angioedema (HAE).

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The license from ERS Genomics now enables Vivlion to offer both R&D reagents and screening services to its customers worldwide. The license from ERS Genomics now enables Vivlion to offer both R&D reagents and screening services to its customers worldwide. 1, 2020 09:04 UTC.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 28, 2023

Vertex Pharmaceuticals has signed a new non-exclusive licensing agreement with CRISPR Therapeutics to expedite the development of its hypoimmune cell therapies to treat type 1 diabetes (T1D). The gene-editing technology allows for precise, directed changes to genomic DNA.

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Scienmag

MAY 26, 2022

— CRISPR has ushered in the era of genomic medicine. A line of powerful tools has been developed from the popular CRISPR-Cas9 to cure genetic diseases. ITHACA, N.Y.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 25, 2024

Allogene Therapeutics and Arbor Biotechnologies Biotechnology companies Allogene Therapeutics and Arbor Biotechnologies entered a non-exclusive, global gene editing licensing agreement for use of Arbor’s proprietary CRISPR gene-editing technology in Allogene’s AlloCAR T platform for the treatment of autoimmune disease (AID).

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STAT News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A new CRISPR startup — backed by some big names in venture capital — is planning to develop gene-editing treatments that can insert a genetic sequence of any length, at any location in the DNA strand, according to industry insiders and documents.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Innovation S-curve for the pharmaceutical industry CRISPR nuclease is a key innovation area in pharmaceutical development CRISPR, which refers to clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, are bacteriophage-derived DNA sequences that had previously infected the prokaryote and are found in the genomes of bacteria and archaea.

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 23, 2022

Novartis has shouldered its way into the in vivo gene editing category via a deal with US biotech Precision BioSciences, focused on a therapy for sickle cell disease (SCD). billion in potential milestones if the project advances through development and onto the market. billion agreement that started in 2020.

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XTalks

AUGUST 29, 2022

Now a common gene editing tool, the popularity of the CRISPR-Cas9 system has increased over the past decade. CRISPR is notable for engineering living cells, allowing scientists to edit, turn off, delete, or replace genes in a cell’s genome. Harnessing the Cellular Engineering Potential of CRISPR.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In celebration of the Nobel Prize for Medicine going to two of the early proponents of mRNA technology for creating therapeutics, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, this week our round-up highlights the importance of genetics, genomics and gene editing in drug discovery.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 8, 2020

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. Further back in development are drugs that will be administered to edit genes within the body, but the first of these candidates are now in clinical trials.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In celebration of the Nobel Prize for Medicine going to two of the early proponents of mRNA technology for creating therapeutics, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, this week our round-up highlights the importance of genetics, genomics and gene editing in drug discovery.

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XTalks

OCTOBER 20, 2023

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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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Gene therapies are an attractive way of targeting the underlying genetic mutations, but traditional approaches cannot be used while targeting mutations for Dravet Syndrome, forcing researchers to develop new ways. Meanwhile, others are researching the link between gene variation and different responses to treatments.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It is caused by a single gene mutation that impairs the body’s ability to mediate LDL cholesterol. Since the mutation only affects a single gene, it makes it a prime candidate for genome editing treatments. The data showed that Verve-101 could meaningfully and durably lower LDL-C in these patients.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The National Institutes of Health has awarded the first phase of a roughly $40m grant to Yale University to advance a novel CRISPR-based gene-editing delivery platform for the targeted treatment of neurogenetic diseases. The two diseases being targeted in the project are Angelman syndrome and H1-4 (HIST1H1E) syndrome.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 26, 2023

DDW Editor Reece Armstrong takes a look at the pharmaceutical research and development market in 2023 and asks key opinion leaders what challenges and trends will emerge throughout the year. billion showed the pharma giant taking further steps into the oncology market and developing its speciality medicines vaccines portfolio.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 5, 2023

The acquisition will provide Eterna with a pipeline of allogeneic immuno-oncology products under development for the treatment of haematologic and solid tumours. In contrast to DNA-based reprogramming and gene editing, the mRNA-based approach does not expose cells to expensive and potentially harmful viruses or DNA vectors.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

DDW’s Diana Spencer meets Dr Stephen Jones, Research Professor and Group Leader at the EMBL Partnership Institute for Genome Editing Technologies at Vilnius University’s Life Sciences Center. DS: Can you tell us what you do and what you’re working on at the moment? Antibiotics are absolutely critical to the work we do in the lab.

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BioTech 365

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Nasdaq:LOGC), a genome editing company focused on developing medicines to durably treat rare diseases in pediatric patients, today announced CEO Fred Chereau will present at the Jefferies Virtual Gene … Continue reading → LEXINGTON, Mass., 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — LogicBio Therapeutics, Inc.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 29, 2024

SpyBiotech and the University of Oxford Biotechnology company SpyBiotech and University of Oxford have entered a research agreement for the development of a vaccine against Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). ERS Genomics and IRBM ERS Genomics and IRBM have signed an agreement granting IRBM access to ERS’ CRISPR/Cas9 patent portfolio.

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BioTech 365

OCTOBER 12, 2020

which develops genome editing technologies to accelerate drug discovery and develop novel therapeutics for a broad range of diseases, today announced the successful completion of a RMB 450 million (approximately USD 67 million) Series … Continue reading → BEIJING & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS

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