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The Significance of the MHRA Approval and Upcoming FDA Review of the First Gene Editing Treatment

Worldwide Clinical Trials

Casgevy, the commercial product formerly known as exa-cel, is administered by taking stem cells out of a patient’s bone marrow and editing a gene in the cells in a laboratory, with the modified cells then infused back into the patient after conditioning treatment to prepare the bone marrow.

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Editas, AbbVie rework gene editing deal as pioneering CRISPR trial resumes

Bio Pharma Dive

Development of EDIT-101, the first CRISPR-based therapy to be used in a company-led trial to alter genes within a person's body, will now move forward under Editas' sole ownership.

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Prime Medicine Gets FDA Okay for First Trial of Gene Editing Technique

BioSpace

The FDA has cleared a clinical trial of an ex vivo prime editing candidate in patients with a rare disease, Prime Medicine announced Monday. The technique taps CRISPR technology to rewrite defective genes without breaking DNA double helix strands.

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Prime gets FDA green light to begin first trial test of ‘prime editing’

Bio Pharma Dive

The company will soon start a Phase 1/2 study of its treatment for chronic granulomatous disease, a milestone for the search-and-replace gene editing technology.

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Gene editing: beyond the hype

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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. That would just slow the whole field down.

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FDA halts Verve plans to test gene editing therapy for heart disease in US

Bio Pharma Dive

Verve didn’t say what led to the FDA’s decision, but claimed it hasn’t observed any safety issues in an ongoing trial in New Zealand and the U.K, where enrollment will continue.

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Eligo raises $30 million to further gene editing within the microbiome

Drug Discovery World

Gene editing company Eligo Bioscience has announced a successful $30 million Series B funding round, led by Sanofi Ventures. “We The investment will fuel pre-IND and IND activities to achieve early human data readouts in a PhIb/IIa clinical trial.