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Opinion: Secrecy: A demon of gene therapy’s past bedevils its future

STAT News

Twenty-three years ago, the field of gene therapy was bursting with the promise of breakthrough treatments. Then it was almost instantly derailed by the death of an 18-year-old clinical trial volunteer named Jesse Gelsinger after he received a genetically engineered virus that had been developed to treat his rare liver condition.

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Leading innovators in IgG gene expressing animal models for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

In the last three years alone, there have been over 633,000 patents filed and granted in the pharmaceutical industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Innovation in Pharmaceuticals: IgG gene expressing animal models. To obtain human antibody responses within a mouse, mice are genetically engineered to be humanised for their Ig genes.

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New ‘split-drive’ system puts scientists in the (gene) driver seat

Scienmag

Researchers develop tunable system that harnesses the spread of cargo carried by gene drives Credit: Gerard Terradas, UC San Diego Powerful new genetic engineering methods have given scientists the potential to revolutionize several sectors of global urgency.

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QN-023a by Hangzhou Qihan Biotechnology for Relapsed Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Likelihood of Approval

Pharmaceutical Technology

QN-023a is under clinical development by Hangzhou Qihan Biotechnology and currently in Phase I for Relapsed Acute Myeloid Leukemia. GlobalData tracks drug-specific phase transition and likelihood of approval scores, in addition to indication benchmarks based off 18 years of historical drug development data.

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AGC and RoosterBio partner for cell and exosome therapy manufacturing

Pharmaceutical Technology

Biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) AGC Biologics has entered a strategic collaboration with RoosterBio to expedite the manufacturing of cell and exosome therapies. These capabilities comprise cell and exosome genetic engineering for expressing therapeutic targets.

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Scientists engineer safe, virus-resistant E coli for research

Drug Discovery World

In a step forward for genetic engineering and synthetic biology, US researchers have modified E coli bacteria to be immune to infection by all natural viruses tested so far. The team used two safeguard methods to prevent the bacteria and their modified genes from escaping into the wild.

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Enabling the next wave of innovative drug therapies with speciality enzymes

Pharmaceutical Technology

The next wave of medicine is well on course to be cell and gene-based. For cell and gene therapy applications, you need a variety of speciality enzymes of the highest purity, specificity, and consistency. Developing best-in-class speciality enzymes. This venture is a perfect match; we complement each other.

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