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Moderna and Generation Bio partner for genetic medicines development

Pharmaceutical Technology

Moderna has entered a strategic partnership with Generation Bio for the development of non-viral genetic medicines. Moderna’s biological and technical expertise will be combined with core technologies of the non-viral genetic medicine platform from Generation Bio.

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STAT+: Intellia says CRISPR treatment safely corrects DNA of six patients with rare disease

STAT News

Intellia Therapeutics said Friday 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. Participants in the high-dose group have not yet completed the 16-week observation period.

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Oncotarget: Cutaneous apocrine sweat gland carcinoma

Scienmag

Together these Oncotarget results describe the first ever CAC case with a BRCAness genetic background Credit: Correspondence to – Juha K.

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Moderna partners with Life Edit for mRNA gene editing therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Moderna has entered a strategic research and development partnership with ElevateBio’s Life Edit Therapeutics to discover and develop new in-vivo mRNA gene editing therapies. The company’s nuclease collection includes several Protospacer Adjacent Motifs (PAMs), short sequences that help determine the genome’s DNA segments.

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Leading innovators in transgenic murine models for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

Within the emerging innovation stage, cell therapy for ocular disorders, coronavirus vaccine components, and DNA polymerase compositions are disruptive technologies that are in the early stages of application and should be tracked closely. However, not all innovations are equal and nor do they follow a constant upward trend.

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Shining a light on the role of the genome’s ‘dark matter’ in cancer development

Scienmag

Wnt-regulated lncRNA discovery enhanced by in vivo identification and CRISPRi functional validation. doi:10.1186/s13073-020-00788-5… SINGAPORE, 3 Nov 2020 – Long RNA molecules carrying DNA codes that […]. Harmston, N., Glaser, T.L. Genome Med 12, 89 (2020).

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Gene editing: beyond the hype

pharmaphorum

Cutting edge’ is, for once, a truly apt description when it comes to gene editing – both because the field is pushing medicine into areas we might never have dreamed possible, and because these technologies involve literally cutting DNA at a specific point in the genome. Zinc fingers. billion in funding.