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Novo Nordisk’s gene silencing alliance with Dicerna bears first fruit

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Two years after starting to work together, Novo Nordisk and Dicerna have selected the first candidate from a joint project to find new, gene-silencing drugs for liver-related cardiometabolic diseases. In 2019 the Danish company also licensed a preclinical-stage, small-molecule candidate for NASH from Japan’s UBE.

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uniQure signs license deal for Apic Bio’s gene therapy for SOD1-ALS

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Gene therapy company uniQure has entered into a global licensing agreement with Apic Bio for APB-102 to treat patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) caused by mutations in superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1). APB-102 is designed to be a one-time, intrathecally administered gene therapy for ALS patients.

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FDA approves Alnylam’s ultra-rare disease drug Oxlumo

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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. Alnylam licensed inclisiran to The Medicines Company, which was bought last year by Novartis for $9.7

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Cash round sets up trial of InteRNA’s microRNA for cancer

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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. Regulus meanwhile remains a microRNA player, but has suffered a number of setbacks.

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MHRA gives Alnylam ‘innovation passport’ for hypertension drug zilebesiran

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The UK medicines regulator has awarded Alnylam’s RNAi-based therapy zilebesiran for hypertension an ‘innovation passport ‘, a designation designed to speed up NHS access to promising new medicines.