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Opinion: Where are the guidelines for the production of animals with intentional genomic alterations?

STAT News

Genetic engineering has the potential to transform how we raise animals for meat and other products, making food safer, improving animal health and welfare, and shrinking animal agriculture’s environmental footprint. Pigs that are less likely to induce allergic reactions in humans.

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COVID prompts another milestone, as India clears first DNA vaccine

pharmaphorum

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the development of mRNA-based vaccines, and its influence has now extended to DNA-based shots as well, with Zydus Cadila’s ZyCoV-D getting emergency use authorisation in India. Proponents of the approach claim that DNA vaccines may have advantages over other technologies like mRNA.

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How single-use technologies can improve antibodies production  

Drug Discovery World

Where the bottlenecks of achieving higher cell density and higher titers were once thought to be issues of the past, hurdles have now shifted to achieving speed and scale in mAb production without sacrificing quality. DC: Antibodies have and remain a large product class within the biopharmaceutical market.

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New approach can add diversity to crop species without breeding GMOs

Scienmag

Genetic technique edits every chloroplast in a plant, but does not change nuclear DNA of offspring Credit: Image by Hiroko Uchida CC BY-SA 4.0, [link] Breeding better crops through genetic engineering has been possible for decades, but the use of genetically modified plants has been limited by technical challenges and popular controversies.

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FDA Issues Two Guidance Documents on Food Allergen Labeling Requirements

FDA Law Blog

1, 2023; The applicability of food allergen labeling requirements to specific products (e.g., labeling of major food allergens in bulk foods, dietary supplements, protein-free ingredients, and foods produced through genetic engineering); and. Other technical labeling matters. 1, 2023, sesame.

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CRISPR Therapeutics begins natural killer cell cancer tie-up with Nkarta

pharmaphorum

Founded by Nobel prize winner Emmanuelle Charpentier, CRISPR Therapeutics has been at the forefront of the gene editing technology and has refined it to the point where it can be used to accurately edit DNA to correct genetic conditions or modify cells to fight disease.

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Risk Assessment for use of Engineered Genetic Materials in Clinical Research

Advarra

This trend came to the forefront during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the three most popular vaccines developed in response to the coronavirus contained engineered genetic materials in the form of mRNA or a genetically engineered virus. Why Does the IBC Need to do a Risk Assessment?