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Novo Nordisk snaps up RNAi partner Dicerna in $3.3bn takeover deal

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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 Once in the blood, the GalXC molecules travel to the liver, where they enter hepatocyte cells and can switch protein production on or off.

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Unfolding The Folds Of Transthyretin

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Transthyretin (TTR) is a protein that the liver produces to facilitate the transfer of thyroid hormone and vitamin A in the blood. However, due to specific reasons, the TTR protein begins to misfold and aggregate as fibrils, a process known as amyloidosis of Transthyretin (ATTR). Gene-silencing Therapies.

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World RNA Day: What impact RNA it had on drug discovery?  

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1 August was first chosen as World RNA Day in 2018 as a play on AUG (adenine, uracil and guanine), a triple sequence of RNA (called a codon) that initiates protein synthesis by the cell. Since then, it has been observed to publicise the importance of this molecule in the generation of proteins in the body.

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The trends driving ELRIG Drug Discovery 2022

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The pandemic might have affected the number of clinical trials taking place for cell and gene therapies, with activity decreasing by around 15% compared to 2020, but major therapies such as Novartis’ gene therapy drug for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) Zolgensma still made it to market. .

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Intellia, Regeneron ace first trial with ‘in vivo’ CRISPR drug

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Preliminary results from a phase 1 trial run by Regeneron and CRISPR specialist Intellia Therapeutics – co-founded by Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna – showed steep reductions in a biomarker of ATTR amyloidosis disease activity with a single dose of the NTLA-2001 drug. — Eric Topol (@EricTopol) June 26, 2021.

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The use of base editing in stem-cell based therapies

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To avoid these histocompatibility challenges, early clinical trials often opt for an autologous graft-based approach 8,9 to subvert the need for prolonged immunosuppressive treatment and streamline the grafting process. The first in-person iPSC-derived regenerative therapy trial took place at Kyoto University, Japan.

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FDA Approves Oxlumo (lumasiran) for the Treatment of Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1

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Professor and Chief, Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension, Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital, New York City and Investigator on the ILLUMINATE-A trial. Saland, M.D., HAO1 encodes glycolate oxidase (GO), an enzyme upstream of the disease-causing defect in PH1.