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STAT+: After blazing trails in RNA-targeted drugs, Ionis jumps into gene editing

STAT News

Ionis Pharmaceuticals, the California company that turned RNA-targeting medicines from an unproven idea into blockbuster drugs, is now expanding into a new class of therapeutics that treat disease by editing DNA.    On Monday, the company announced a partnership with Metagenomi to kickstart these efforts.

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Ionis teams with Metagenomi and dives into gene editing

Bio Pharma Dive

The RNA drug developer is paying the richly-funded startup $80 million in a wide-ranging alliance that marks its first foray into DNA editing medicines.

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Gene Therapy and Pharmacokinetics

Camargo

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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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. Financial details were not disclosed. Source link: [link]

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World AIDS Day 2023: New and Promising Treatments for HIV/AIDS

XTalks

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

Delveinsight

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. GRAIL and Quest collaborate for the cancer blood test.

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Could Gene Therapy Cure Sickle Cell Disease? Two New Studies Raise Hopes

The Pharma Data

David Williams, uses a virus to introduce RNA into the extracted bone marrow that turns off BCL11A. 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. Food and Drug Administration.