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Opinion: Where are the guidelines for the production of animals with intentional genomic alterations?

STAT News

Genetic engineering has the potential to transform how we raise animals for meat and other products, making food safer, improving animal health and welfare, and shrinking animal agriculture’s environmental footprint. Pigs that are less likely to induce allergic reactions in humans.

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How Potential Changes to the NIH Guidelines Could Impact IBC Review

WCG Clinical

Although the NIH Guidelines were originally written with non-clinical laboratory research in mind, they also apply to human gene transfer (HGT) research, wherein rsNA or rsNA-containing products are administered to research participants. Since then, however, certain genetic engineering technologies (e.g.,

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Advancements in upstream CLD for enhanced biotherapeutics production

Drug Discovery World

Upstream cell line development has seen notable progress with recent advances in cell line engineering, particularly in enhancing gene of interest integration specificity, clone selection, and production efficiency. Next-generation engineering tools, such as gene editing have enabled knock-out cell lines with enhanced characteristics.

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CNIO researchers clarify the role of the two isoforms of KRAS, the most common oncogene in humans

Bioengineer

These findings suggest that for therapies to be effective, they must be targeted at both gene products. KRAS encodes two gene products, KRAS4A and KRAS4B, whose levels can vary across organs and embryonic stages. ” KRAS genes in embryonic development. Credit: CNIO.

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Leading innovators in zinc-finger nucleases for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

Innovation S-curve for the pharmaceutical industry Zinc-finger nucleases is a key innovation area in pharmaceutical Zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs) are tools used in genetic engineering to cleave a chosen genomic sequence.

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Leading innovators in gene splicing using nucleases for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

In the last three years alone, there have been over 633,000 patents filed and granted in the pharmaceutical industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Innovation in Pharmaceuticals: Gene splicing using nucleases. They are engineered to cut specific genomic targets in order to modify the expression of single genes and proteins.

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Rheumatoid arthritis treated with implanted cells that release drug

The Pharma Data

Louis have genetically engineered cells that, when implanted in mice, will deliver a biologic drug in response to inflammation. The engineered cells reduced inflammation and prevented a type of damage to bone, known as bone erosion, in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis. . Simon Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery.

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