Drug Discovery World

MAY 24, 2023

Touchlight, a company providing DNA services and manufacturing enzymes, has completed the redevelopment and expansion of its UK manufacturing facility in London, UK. The expanded facility’s manufacturing capacity has tripled and is now capable of producing more than 8kg a year.

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

CRISPR gene editing companies Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) and Aldevron have inked a new global distribution agreement to expand CRISPR products for cell and gene therapy customers. The post Partners working to realise the future of genomic medicine appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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JULY 27, 2021

When developing a clinical development program for these increasingly popular therapies, it is important that sponsors use modeling and pharmacokinetic (PK) analysis to evaluate parameters that can be measured while dosing with gene therapy drugs, to characterize exposure-response data and inform rational dosing.

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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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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 1, 2023

According to GlobalData, Phase I drugs for Neuroendocrine Tumors have a 74% phase transition success rate (PTSR) indication benchmark for progressing into Phase II. GlobalData’s report assesses how Nedisertib’s drug-specific PTSR and Likelihood of Approval (LoA) scores compare to the indication benchmarks.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 1, 2023

According to GlobalData, Phase I drugs for Head And Neck Cancer Squamous Cell Carcinoma have an 80% phase transition success rate (PTSR) indication benchmark for progressing into Phase II. GlobalData’s report assesses how Nedisertib’s drug-specific PTSR and Likelihood of Approval (LoA) scores compare to the indication benchmarks.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 5, 2023

The technology underlying Exacis’ platform uses mRNA cell reprogramming and mRNA gene editing to create engineered iPSC-derived cells for use in the development of cancer therapies that can target nearly any cancer antigen.

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pharmaphorum

APRIL 23, 2021

CRISPR Therapeutics is to receive a hefty $900m payment from Vertex after the companies amended a collaboration to develop, manufacture and market a gene editing therapy for sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia. The post Nobel winner Charpentier’s CRISPR Therapeutics gets $900m in reworked Vertex deal appeared first on.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Scientists have shown how stomach cancers can develop resistance to a new class of drugs called ATR inhibitors by switching off the activity of two key genes – raising the possibility of outsmarting cancer by predicting drug resistance in advance. . CRISPR used to identify genes involved.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The last month has seen huge strides forward in our understanding of cancers, particularly in how they develop resistance to therapies and how we can ‘outsmart’ them using gene editing or different therapeutic pathways, but also how we can better target drugs to individuals and accurately predict treatment outcomes.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 17, 2023

They will lead research into using LNPs to deliver a gene editing tool that could delete bad genes in the photoreceptor cells and replace them with correctly functioning genes. . We’re hoping to use what we’ve learned so far about LNPs to develop an improved gene editor delivery system.” .

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STAT News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Enjoy, and see you soon … Intellia Therapeutics reported that the first six patients to receive its CRISPR-based treatment for a genetic swelling disorder have safely had small, corrective changes made to dysfunctional DNA inside their liver cells , STAT writes.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 7, 2021

Gene editing firm CRISPR Therapeutics has announced a collaboration with US biotech Nkarta to develop natural killer (NK) cell therapies for cancer. It’s at the forefront of gene editing although the technology has spawned rivals including Intellia Therapeutics, Caribou Biosciences, Sangamo Therapeutics and Mammoth Biosciences.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Drs Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have won this year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry in recognition of their work on the gene-editing technology CRISPR/Cas9. The technique introduces a break in a specific place within DNA that triggers a self-repair mechanism.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Lu Rahman selects some of the year’s interesting and noteworthy advances in cancer research drug discovery and development. As always, a year within cancer drug discovery and development brings with it significant breakthroughs, and 2023 has been no exception. Research into new cancer drugs remain strong. expressing cancers.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Once someone is infected with HIV it stays with them for life thanks to the retrovirus’s ability to inject its DNA code into the host. The cash will also help develop two other preclinical drugs, EBT-104 for Herpes Simplex Virus and EBT-107 for hepatitis B.

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XTalks

JANUARY 26, 2024

Innovations in Cancer Therapy CRISPR/Cas9, a groundbreaking gene-editing technology, has demonstrated significant potential in oncology, offering new avenues for cancer treatment. Overcoming drug resistance: A major challenge in cancer treatment is the development of resistance to chemotherapy drugs.

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The Pharma Data

JUNE 7, 2023

Bayer strengthens gene therapy portfolio with lipid nanoparticle technology from Acuitas Therapeutics Bayer AG is joining forces with Acuitas Therapeutics, Inc., LNPs are spheric drug delivery bodies which can be equipped with therapeutic payloads for intracellular delivery. Financial details were not disclosed. Source link: [link]

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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. They also present ethical, monetary, and time-related challenges. .

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 21, 2023

DDW’s top 10 most popular articles for 2023 reflect the key subjects in drug discovery and development. In a record year for gene therapy approvals, it isn’t surprising that cell & gene therapy (CGT) has been a hot topic. This well-read article featured in the DDW Winter 22/23 issue’s Cell & Gene Therapy Guide.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The United Kingdom has established itself as a hub for drug discovery expertise worldwide. There is a range of reasons why this area has become focal point for drug discovery, one of which is the fact that it encompasses the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, two of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In 2022, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval to the medication Sunlenca (lenacapavir) for adults living with multi-drug resistant HIV-1 infection. Developed by Gilead, Sunlenca is the first drug in a novel class known as capsid inhibitors to receive FDA approval for treating HIV-1.

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XTalks

MAY 22, 2023

Related: 5 Food Companies Working With Precision Fermentation Technology How Pairwise Leverages CRISPR Technology CRISPR, or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a gene-editing technique that can be used to alter the DNA of cells to enhance certain characteristics or reduce less desirable ones.

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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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Delveinsight

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Beam adds to drug delivery stable with USD 120 Million GuideTx buy. The gene-editing technologies, which have reached the clinic, CRISPR, zinc finger nucleases, and TALENs, make their edits by nicking DNA at the target site. If they eliminated the T cells, the therapy stopped working.

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Delveinsight

MARCH 2, 2021

HitGen & UPPTHERA Collaborate for Drug Delivery Research. HitGen has entered into a collaboration for drug discovery research with UPPTHERA to identify small molecule Hits against previous known-to-be undruggable targets and novel E3 ligase. Artiva Raises USD 120 M to Advancing Allogeneic NK Cell Therapy Pipeline.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 16, 2023

This is the latest episode of the free DDW podcast, “Mass spectrometry and CRISPR are pillars of drug discovery”. In the first article, Dr. Zack Gurard-Levin, Chief Scientific Officer at SAMDI Tech, breaks down three critical components to consider to ensure a successful affinity selection mass spectrometry (ASMS) drug discovery programme.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first gene therapies for the treatment of sickle cell disease, approving two on the same day. Both gene therapies are approved for individuals 12 years of age and older with sickle cell disease. Both therapies will be available in early 2024. million after discounts.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

From a general healthcare perspective, access to this sort of data is invaluable, but this is particularly noteworthy in that DNA tests have historically been limited in these regions on account of cost and availability of practitioners, services and resources. References .

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Using an experimental technique called exon skipping by antisense oligonucleotides, the team corrected a mistake in the FKTN gene that blocks the chemical glycosylation of a biologically important protein. . The post RNA interference method could treat muscular dystrophy appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Cloudbyz

MARCH 6, 2024

Traditionally, pharmaceutical therapies have primarily consisted of small molecule drugs, commonly known as pills. This shift signifies not just a change in the way drugs are manufactured and administered, but also a fundamental transformation in the approach to treating diseases at their root cause.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It’ll support AstraZeneca’s focus on specialised and perfection drugs and foster the discovery and development of coming generation rectifiers, including nucleotide- grounded, gene-editing and cell curatives. The new£ 1bn installation will include the most advanced robotics, high- outturn webbing and AI- driven technology.

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XTalks

MAY 12, 2021

In this episode, Ayesha discusses a new tool that uses CRISPR to modulate gene expression without editing DNA sequences. Dubbed “CRISPRoff,” the technology targets the epigenome to silence genes involved in diseases, with applications in cancer, AML and other conditions with a heritable component.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The other study, from German researchers led by Dr. Selim Corbacioglu from the University of Regensburg, relies on CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to switch off BCL11A. The CRISPR gene editing method won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and uses chemicals to open up and directly edit DNA sequences, Hsu said.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Dr Jennifer Harbottle, senior scientist in the R&D Base Editing team of PerkinElmer’s Horizon Discovery business, looks at progress made in the realms of biotechnology and next-generation diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics, including the application of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in developing and refining cell therapies.

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STAT News

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

A man with muscular dystrophy who was first in line to receive an experimental gene editing therapy tailor made to treat the cause of his rare form of the disease has died. The clinical trial was to be the first time anyone got a gene editing therapy for muscular dystrophy.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As we step into 2024, the life sciences continue to evolve at an unprecedented pace, driven by technological innovation, a deeper understanding of human biology and the application of new technologies in areas like drug development and health wearables. Regulatory bodies are also taking note of the applications of AI in drug development.

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