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Gene Therapy and Pharmacokinetics

Camargo

How and When to Incorporate PK Design into Your Gene Therapy Development Plan. Gene therapy, which was in its infancy around 30 years ago, is now becoming a more prominent treatment method in many therapeutic areas, from personalized therapy to mass vaccinations against COVID-19. Gene Therapy Definition.

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

XTalks

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. How do Casgevy and Lyfgenia Work?

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FDA slaps clinical hold on BioMarin’s PKU gene therapy

pharmaphorum

BioMarin Pharma has had another setback in its gene therapy development programme, announcing this morning that the FDA has placed a phase 1/2 trial of its candidate for phenylketonuria (PKU) on hold while it investigates a safety signal. “We are committed to understand and mitigate any risk of cancer causation.”

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Turning science into business: Amplifying mRNA by targeting regRNAs

Drug Discovery World

JMB: Regulatory RNAs (or regRNAS) are molecules that directly control the expression of nearby protein-coding genes. Recently, research published by Dr Richard (Rick) Young (Whitehead Institute) describes the key mechanism of how these regRNAs regulate gene expression. What diseases are you currently targeting?

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The future outlook for mRNA therapies

Drug Discovery World

Its job is to carry coding information that is essential to the translation and processing of functional proteins. This is essential to its use as a therapeutic agent and gives the technology a vast versatility making it suitable to treating a wide range of diseases – especially those that have high protein expression.

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Epigenetic Editing with CRISPR Might Be Easier Than We Thought

XTalks

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the Whitehead Institute have developed a novel CRISPR-based tool called “CRISPRoff” that can switch off genes in human cells through epigenetic editing without altering the genetic sequence itself. It’s a great tool for controlling gene expression.”.

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Novartis announces lift of partial clinical trial hold and plans to initiate a new, pivotal Phase 3 study of intrathecal OAV-101 in older patients with SMA

The Pharma Data

SVP, Chief Medical Officer, Novartis Gene Therapies. “We Additionally, STEER will add to the clinical data and emerging real-world evidence for the use of gene therapy to treat SMA. This route of administration has the potential to open up access for older patients to all the benefits of gene therapy.