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Gene editing: beyond the hype

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Since Macrae joined the company just four years ago, Sangamo has more than tripled its staff and raised $1.6 It has also built its own manufacturing site and launched partnerships with six big pharma companies. Zinc fingers are the most common control gene in the body,” Macrae explains. “We billion in funding.

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Scandinavia: insight into opportunities for drug discovery

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“We have 3,000 companies in the life sciences sector. A good part of half of those are within pharma. The project includes five partners, Takara Bio Europe, TATAA Biocenter, MultiD, RISE and the University of Skövde who will develop will develop a new AI-based QC method that uses gene expression patterns to classify cells.

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Fibrosis research: Advances and challenges 

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PW: Through our exclusive access to one of the world’s largest fibrosis tissue biobanks, we have correlated disease progression to gene expression data, enabling us to discover novel targets on the pathway that drives the advanced stages of fibrotic disease. The gene expression data were generated by RNAseq on biopsies stored at -78°C.

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Synthetic biology tools advancing and accelerating drug discovery efforts

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To accelerate drug development timelines, biotechs and pharma companies may choose to outsource some or all parts of antibody discovery and optimisation to DNA synthesis technology partners equipped with the tools and techniques to get reliable results faster. This approach has been around for a while.

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