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MARCH 10, 2021

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Scienmag

JANUARY 4, 2021

BOSTON – A long-running debate over how an important gene-silencing protein identifies its targets has been resolved by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The findings could yield important implications for development of drugs to treat cancer and other diseases.

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XTalks

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Ayesha also talked about a new gene silencing treatment for porphyria called Givlaari that received recommendation from England’s NICE after having been initially rejected by the health watchdog last year. Gene Silencing Porphyria Treatment, Givlaari, Finally Wins Over England’s NICE Amid Stellar Long-Term Data.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 31, 2023

Under the terms of the deal, uniQure will obtain the worldwide rights to develop and market the clinical stage gene therapy, APB-102. uniQure stated that the license of APB-102 further strengthens its gene therapies pipeline developed for the treatment of neurological disorders as well as miRNA-based gene silencing programmes.

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Scienmag

MAY 9, 2022

and colleagues have described a novel form of gene regulation that is altered in bladder cancer, leading to the boosting of a gene pathway that helps the cancer cells survive during rapid growth. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Anindya Dutta, MBBS, Ph.D., Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Anindya Dutta, MBBS, Ph.D.,

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 25, 2023

“In this context, the data we have published in NEJM are exciting, suggesting the potential role for zilebesiran to treat hypertension in a novel way via a novel, subcutaneously administered gene silencing approach to hypertension.”

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Scienmag

JULY 2, 2021

A newly developed CRISPR-Cas9-based tool carries out efficient and long-term gene silencing by epigenetic editing Credit: BioDesign Research Originally discovered as a bacterial mode of defense against invading viruses, the remarkable ability of CRISPR-Cas9 to modify specific locations of DNA has made it a researcher favorite among gene editing tools. (..)

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 21, 2021

UK cost-effectiveness watchdog NICE is set to recommend NHS use of Alnylam’s gene-silencing therapy Givlaari in England and Wales for the rare disease acute hepatic porphyria (AHP), after its advisors issued a positive verdict on the drug.

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XTalks

JUNE 14, 2023

Tivanisiran is a preservative-free eye drop that uses RNAi technology, specifically gene silencing, to target and control the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. It is a small synthetic double-stranded RNA oligonucleotide (siRNA) designed for this purpose, representing the state-of-the-art in gene silencing technology.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Programmable Oligonucleotide Delivery System (PODS), developed by Sixfold Bioscience, is a versatile system which delivers short interfering RNA (siRNA) gene silencing cargo to specific cancer cells.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In addition to gene therapy, gene silencing, which can be done using ASOs, is also an interesting approach, says Barmada. However, these treatments must target a gene, which is challenging, since many FTD patients lack mutations, says Barmada.

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Credit: TMIMS RNA interference is a gene regulatory mechanism in which the expression of specific genes is downregulated by endogenous microRNAs or by small interfering RNAs (siRNAs). Although siRNAs have broad potential for gene-silencing therapy, their instability is one of the difficulties to develop siRNA-based agents.

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Scienmag

JUNE 7, 2021

A number of candidate therapies such as CRISPR-Cas9 and gene silencing require the efficient delivery of functional nucleic acids to the cell cytosol and nucleus. Divita Mathur, Research Assistant Professor, is studying cytosolic access and instability of DNA nanoparticles.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 11, 2022

billion takeover of gene-silencing specialist Dicerna Pharma last year, another deal aimed at extending its R&D capabilities by bolting on a new platform technology – in this case RNA interference (RNAi) drugs. The move follows Novo Nordisk’s $3.3

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 1, 2022

The US biotech has just reported phase 2 trial results with the small, interfering RNA (siRNA) gene-silencing drug showing that it an cause a 90% or greater reduction in Lp(a) levels – a risk factor for cardiovascular disease – that was sustained over 48 weeks of follow-up.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk must like what it has seen in its two-year-old alliance with gene-silencing specialist Dicerna Pharma – it has just agreed to acquire the biotech for $3.3 billion in cash.

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XTalks

MAY 4, 2021

The tool could also prove to be safer than conventional CRISPR-based gene therapies as it does not involve DNA editing, and thus would not cause potentially harmful off-target genomic changes. Genes can be switched on with a complementary tool called CRISPRon that has also been described in the paper.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 19, 2023

Alnylam’s gene-silencing drug Amvuttra has been recommended as a treatment for hereditary transthyretin-related (ATTR) amyloidosis by NICE, paving the way for the drug to be made available on the NHS in England and Wales.

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Knockout’ mice are bred in a laboratory with specific genes silenced or ‘knocked out’. The goal of this final phase is to produce and phenotype hundreds of knockout mouse models for genes with little to no known function, to better understand the genetic bases for diseases in humans and animals. .

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

InteRNA is focusing on the development of gene-silencing drugs based on microRNA, naturally occurring, non-coding strands of RNA that are thought to regulate gene expression in cells.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

With 28 pioneering speakers from large pharma, innovative biotech and KOLs of academia who are ready to discuss the full and comprehensive range of RNAi drugs from discovery to development and beyond, join us in Boston to hear how they address the major challenges facing the industry.

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pharmaphorum

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s the chronic form of the disease that is the main target, with Ionis is working with GSK on an antisense drug that can suppress the hepatitis B virus (HBV), and Roche is working with Dicerna on a rival gene silencing drug.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 13, 2021

In 2019, for example it agreed to work with Dicerna on gene-silencing for liver-related cardio-metabolic disease in a deal that involved a $225 million upfront payment. There has been an increase in partnering activity at Novo Nordisk as it follows a diversification strategy.

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 1, 2023

The NIH states: “This natural mechanism for sequence-specific gene silencing promises to revolutionise experimental biology and may have important practical applications in functional genomics, therapeutic intervention, agriculture and other areas.”

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 28, 2021

The reductions matched the efficacy of current therapies for ATTR amyloidosis that require chronic dosing such as Alnylam’s Onpattro (patisiran) and Ionis/Akcea’s Tegsedi (inotersen) – both gene-silencing agents which can cost around $450,000 a year.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 19, 2020

If approved, inclisiran would become the first and only gene-silencing drug to reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in these patients. The drug inhibits PCSK9 – the same target as Amgen’s Repatha (evolocumab) and Sanofi/Regeneron’s Repatha (alirocumab) – but is dosed only twice a year rather than every month.

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 8, 2022

Zilebesiran (formerly ALN-AGT) is one of a new breed of gene-silencing drugs that are intended to treat common, chronic diseases with infrequent dosing to boost compliance with treatment.

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 4, 2021

Tivanisiran is based on gene silencing technology using RNA interference (RNAi) and selectively inhibits production of the transient receptor potential cation channel (TRPV1).

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pharmaphorum

JULY 28, 2022

Alnylam Pharma has made a name for itself, developing gene-silencing therapies for rare disorders, but its latest discovery could take it into a much larger category – metabolic and cardiovascular disease.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 6, 2021

Only this morning, Novo Nordisk selected the first candidate from a project with Dicerna to find new gene-silencing drugs to treat liver-related diseases including NASH. A host of other pharma companies including Gilead, Novo Nordisk, Merck & Co are also developing potential NASH drugs.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The FDA has approved Alnylam’s gene silencing drug Oxlumo, the first treatment for primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1), an ultra-rare and life-threatening genetic disorder.

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XTalks

MAY 4, 2021

The tool could also prove to be safer than conventional CRISPR-based gene therapies as it does not involve DNA editing, and thus would not cause potentially harmful off-target genomic changes. Genes can be switched on with a complementary tool called CRISPRon that has also been described in the paper.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Alexion has been working hard to flesh out is pipeline as well, snapping up Achillion Pharma, Syntimmune, Wilson Therapeutics and Portola and forging an alliance with gene-silencing specialist Dicerna focusing on complement diseases.

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XTalks

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Related: Gene Silencing Porphyria Treatment, Givlaari, Finally Wins Over England’s NICE Amid Stellar Long-Term Data. It is an autosomal recessive disorder, which means that if both parents are carriers of the faulty gene that causes the disease, there is a one in four chance that their child will develop the disease.

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The Pharma Data

APRIL 27, 2023

These early results establish the first human translation of Alnylam’s proprietary C16-siRNA conjugate platform for central nervous system (CNS) delivery and are the first clinical demonstration of gene silencing in the human brain using an RNAi therapeutic.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 19, 2020

If approved, inclisiran would become the first and only gene-silencing drug to reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in these patients. The drug inhibits PCSK9 – the same target as Amgen’s Repatha (evolocumab) and Sanofi/Regeneron’s Repatha (alirocumab) – but is dosed only twice a year rather than every month.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Earlier this year, the group also signed a licensing deal with Dyno Therapeutics for its AAV capsid-based gene delivery technology, also focused on ocular disease which remains one of Novartis’ core drug development targets despite the spin-off of the Alcon eyecare division in 2019.

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