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Moderna and Generation Bio partner for genetic medicines development

Pharmaceutical Technology

Moderna has entered a strategic partnership with Generation Bio for the development of non-viral genetic medicines. Moderna’s biological and technical expertise will be combined with core technologies of the non-viral genetic medicine platform from Generation Bio.

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

Drug Discovery World

Verve-101 is an investigational, in vivo base editing medicine designed to be a single-course treatment that inactivates the PCSK9 gene in the liver to durably lower blood LDL-C. “Of The post Single-course in vivo base editing therapy proven to lower cholesterol appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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BioMed X and Sanofi partner to leverage AI for drug development

Pharmaceutical Technology

BioMed X has entered a research partnership with Sanofi to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) for drug development. The partnership intends to address a 90% failure rate of new therapy candidates in clinical development, which is a key bottleneck of the pharmaceutical industry.

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

XTalks

Intellia said NTLA-2001 is the first investigational in vivo CRISPR-based gene editing therapy cleared to enter late-stage clinical development. As an in vivo therapy, it can edit genes inside the body rather than in cells extracted from patients. ATTR amyloidosis is a rare, progressive and fatal disease.

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Immunotherapy partnership advances space medicine research

Drug Discovery World

US company Vaxxinity and the University of Central Florida (UCF) have announced plans to work together to advance space medicine research. The research, funded by a grant from the State of Florida, aims to develop Vaxxinity’s active immunotherapies to prevent and mitigate muscle and bone wasting.

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Collaboration boosts development of novel in-situ CAR-T cell therapies

Drug Discovery World

AbbVie and Umoja Biopharma have entered into two exclusive option and license agreements to develop multiple in-situ generated CAR-T cell therapy candidates in oncology. In non-human primate studies, the therapy has demonstrated effective, durable, and well tolerated in vivo CAR-T cell generation.

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Evotec and Variant Bio partner to develop fibrosis treatments

Drug Discovery World

Evotec will identify best-in-class small molecules targeting a key fibrotic pathway with strong genetic support identified by Variant Bio and progress the programme towards the selection of a clinical development candidate(s) using its R&D platform.