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STAT+: Moderna expands CRISPR gene editing research with ElevateBio partnership

STAT News

Moderna is aiming to build a gene editing franchise powered by some of the same technologies used in its COVID-19 vaccines. The Cambridge biotech company announced Wednesday that it will partner with Life Edit Therapeutics to develop potentially permanent treatments for rare genetic diseases and other conditions.

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Gene Therapy and Pharmacokinetics

Camargo

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. Additionally, gene editing allows us either to remove or to modify harmful genes. Formulation Considerations.

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New London facility exceeds global plasmid DNA demand 

Drug Discovery World

This exceeds the current, but growing, global supply of plasmid DNA for genetic medicine, and dramatically increases Touchlight’s capacity to meet growing demand for DNA from biopharmaceutical companies. Touchlight has contracts to supply many top biopharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Lonza.

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This week in drug discovery (2-6 October)  

Drug Discovery World

In celebration of the Nobel Prize for Medicine going to two of the early proponents of mRNA technology for creating therapeutics, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, this week our round-up highlights the importance of genetics, genomics and gene editing in drug discovery.

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Are We Getting Closer to a Herpes Vaccine?

The Pharma Data

16, 2020 — Scientists are reporting early success with an experimental herpes vaccine that uses a genetically modified version of the virus. The gene edit prevents the virus from performing its normal evasive maneuver: hiding out in nervous system cells in order to elude the immune system. MONDAY, Nov.

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Advancements in upstream CLD for enhanced biotherapeutics production

Drug Discovery World

Upstream cell line development has seen notable progress with recent advances in cell line engineering, particularly in enhancing gene of interest integration specificity, clone selection, and production efficiency. Next-generation engineering tools, such as gene editing have enabled knock-out cell lines with enhanced characteristics.

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Pfizer vaults into sickle cell market as GBT deal confirmed

pharmaphorum

The GBT deal comes at a time when the market for SCD therapies is undergoing significant change, with multiple new drugs reaching the market after years of stagnation and progress also being made with genetic therapies from the likes of bluebird bio, Vertex Pharma/CRISPR Therapeutics and Precision Bio/Novartis.

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