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Gene editing: beyond the hype

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Genome editing is an exciting but still nascent field, and companies in the area face as many obstacles as they do opportunities. Maybe in 50 years’ time we’ll be using gene editing to lower cholesterol, but it won’t replace statins in anyone but those with life threatening mutations for a long time”. Zinc fingers.

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Bayer strengthens gene therapy portfolio with lipid nanoparticle technology from Acuitas Therapeutics

The Pharma Data

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.

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Could CRISPR cure HIV? US biotech Excision raises $60m to find out

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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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Gene editing in organoids: accounting for complexity in drug discovery

Drug Discovery World

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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Beam makes USD 120M bet; GRAIL and Quest announce the collaboration; Brain organoids mimic infant’s brains; Improvement in T cells to kill cancer

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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. Electroporation is used for ex vivo delivery of therapies to blood and immune cells.

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Delivering on the promise of gene editing

Drug Discovery World

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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Lyfgenia and Casgevy Become First FDA-Approved Gene Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease

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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. Casgevy is also the first ever CRISPR/Cas9-based therapy approved in the US.