Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

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 Immuno-oncology in Pharmaceuticals: Gene therapy delivery using viral vectors. Sanofi is one of the leading patent filers working with viral vectors.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 25, 2023

bit.bio has launched the first offering from its new product range ioCRISPR-Ready Cells, which allow research and drug discovery scientists to knockout any gene of interest in glutamatergic neurons. With ioCRISPR-Ready Cells, we’re putting the future of genomics in the hands of every scientist.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Moderna has entered a strategic research and development partnership with ElevateBio’s Life Edit Therapeutics to discover and develop new in-vivo mRNA gene editing therapies. The company’s nuclease collection includes several Protospacer Adjacent Motifs (PAMs), short sequences that help determine the genome’s DNA segments.

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BioSpace

JULY 27, 2023

The British drugmaker’s rare disease subsidiary Alexion will take on a number of Pfizer’s preclinical gene therapy programs and technologies to advance its genomic medicines pipeline.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 12, 2022

David Del Bourgo (CEO and co-founder, Whitelab Genomics) has always been passionate about introducing disruptive, innovative technologies to markets. We founded Whitelab Genomics after realising the potential to use data, data science, and AI in a more systematic way to develop genomic therapies,” Del Bourgo says.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 4, 2023

Prostate cancer tumors harboring BRCA1/2 mutations are exceptionally sensitive to PARP inhibitors, while genomic alterations in other DNA damage response (DDR) genes are less responsive.

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 29, 2023

The latest eBook by DDW ‘The impact of genomics on drug discovery: Creating new opportunities’ is out now. This 24-page eBook sponsored by The Jackson Laboratory looks at the key use-cases for genomics and how it is improving drug discovery and development projects.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 29, 2021

Genome editing is an exciting but still nascent field, and companies in the area face as many obstacles as they do opportunities. Maybe in 50 years’ time we’ll be using gene editing to lower cholesterol, but it won’t replace statins in anyone but those with life threatening mutations for a long time”. Zinc fingers.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Genomic healthcare data is critical to identify disease risk, ancestry, traits and response to medicines and aids in the development of new targeted therapies – precision medicines. In April 2003, after its launch in October 1990, the project was completed, generating the first sequence of the human genome. The origins .

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 29, 2023

This 24-page eBook sponsored by The Jackson Laboratory looks at the key use-cases for genomics and how it is improving drug discovery and development projects.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Genome sequencing has been used to study typhoid fever in a study in Zimbabwe and understand how the disease has evolved to be resistant to treatment. Working with local health authorities in Harare, they sequenced the genomes of 85 S. Typhoid fever claims over 135,000 lives annually. Typhi population beforehand.

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Known as ‘CReATiNG’ (Cloning Reprogramming and Assembling Tiled Natural Genomic DNA), the method offers a simpler and more cost-effective approach to constructing synthetic chromosomes. The thing about most synthetic genomics research is that it involves building chromosomes or genomes from scratch using chemically synthesised DNA pieces.

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STAT News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Moderna is aiming to build a gene editing franchise powered by some of the same technologies used in its COVID-19 vaccines. Life Edit is the North Carolina subsidiary of ElevateBio, a cell and gene therapy manufacturing firm in Waltham. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT News

AUGUST 17, 2022

When the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History opened its genomics exhibit in 2013, the field was just celebrating the 10th anniversary of the completed Human Genome Project. Sequencing that first genome cost over $500 million. The genomes since cost $10,000. The development of CRISPR-Cas9 landed a Nobel Prize.

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

CRISPR gene editing companies Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) and Aldevron have inked a new global distribution agreement to expand CRISPR products for cell and gene therapy customers. The post Partners working to realise the future of genomic medicine appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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BioPharma Reporter

JUNE 23, 2022

BIO, the worldâs largest trade association for the biotech industry, has responded to the US Food and Drug Administration's draft guidance on developing human gene therapy products that incorporate genome editing (GE) of human somatic cells.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Following the first regulatory approval of a CRISPR-based drug in late 2023, over ten years since the CRISPR-Cas9 system was elucidated, there is considerable optimism about the future potential for gene editing technologies. appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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NPR Health - Shots

MARCH 8, 2023

The Third International Summit on Genome Editing concluded Monday with ethicists warning scientists to slow down efforts to use gene-editing to enhance the health of embryos. Image credit: Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Scientists have discovered the cause of a rare condition within a part of the genome that has been largely unexplored in medical genetics.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have successfully identified differences in gene activity in the brains of people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

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Drug Discovery Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In the field of life sciences, Lithuania is best known for the discovery of gene scissors by Prof. The country now hosts the EMBL Partnership Institute for Genome Editing Technologies at the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center aiming to advance gene editing technologies. Virginijus Šikšnys. One of them is the Jones!Lab,

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Drug Discovery Today

APRIL 24, 2023

Hussman Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have found that variations in chromatin accessibility, and thus gene expression, may explain why people of European descent with APOE4 gene variants have a greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease than people of African descent with similar genetics.

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STAT News

MARCH 3, 2023

Next week, hundreds of scientists from around the world will convene in London for an international summit on genome editing. That technology, which enables scientists to easily excise, alter, or replace specific sections of DNA, was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 12, 2023

FoundationOne CDx is a sequencing-based in vitro diagnostic device that can identify alterations in 324 genes from tumour samples. The ROS1 gene is altered in approximately in 1-2% of lung cancer patients. Exposure to environmental factors can cause gene fusion which leads to upregulation of the ROS-1 enzyme.

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STAT News

MARCH 6, 2023

LONDON — The first gene-edited children were born in China five years ago , but it’s unlikely to happen again there anytime soon. That was the message Chinese scientists delivered Monday on the opening day of the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing in London.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 24, 2023

Listen here: The post New podcast on animal genomics, immunology and CGTs appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW). You can also find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify , Google Play and Apple Podcasts.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 19, 2022

million ($40 million) first-round financing that will be used to explore so-called ‘dark’ regions of the human genome. Nucleome’s platform adds 3D genomic information to a wealth of available genomic data, uncovering a new dimension of information that is disease as well as cell type-specific.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 17, 2023

Technology that enables an unprecedented, high-resolution look for all structural variants in our genes that are known to cause cancer can outperform standard tests used today for common blood cancers like leukemia, researchers report.

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BioTech 365

JUNE 30, 2021

ERS Genomics and Nippon Gene sign CRISPR/Cas9 license agreement ERS Genomics and Nippon Gene sign CRISPR/Cas9 license agreement License agreement to enhance Nippon Gene’s CRISPR/Cas9 research reagents offering DUBLIN & TOKYO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad … Continue reading →

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STAT News

APRIL 17, 2023

But with the advent of genetic engineering, genes encoding favorable traits in one species (say, that hornless cow) could be spliced into the genomes of other animals. For millennia, farmers and ranchers had to encourage desirable traits by selective breeding, a notoriously painstaking and imprecise technique. Read the rest…

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 21, 2023

The European Confederation of Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs (EUCOPE), Exact Sciences, Guardant Health, Illumina, MSD and Novartis have come together to launch the European Coalition for Access to Comprehensive Genomic Profiling (ECGP).

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BioPharma Reporter

APRIL 6, 2022

The FDA has released two draft guidance documents: for human gene therapy products incorporating human genome editing, and for CAR T cell products.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

AUGUST 11, 2022

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and collaborators have identified rare mutations in the INHBE gene that is expressed in the liver, related to a lower waist-to-hip ratio for body mass index (BMI), which is often used as an indicator of abdominal fat and is correlated with the risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and coronary heart disease.

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BioTech 365

MARCH 2, 2021

ERS Genomics Licenses CRISPR Gene Editing Technology to Otsuka Pharmaceutical ERS Genomics Licenses CRISPR Gene Editing Technology to Otsuka Pharmaceutical License to Nobel prize winning CRISPR technology supports internal research and development DUBLIN, Ireland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed … Continue reading (..)

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 4, 2022

AstraZeneca’s rare disease firm Alexion is set to expand its genomic medicine portfolio with the acquisition of gene editing specialist LogicBio Therapeutics, in a deal worth approximately $68 million. The post AstraZeneca pays record 660% premium for gene editing company LogicBio appeared first on.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 27, 2023

By visualizing how the genome is organized and arranged within tumor cells, they were able to reveal genes in tumors that may be future targets for therapy. Researchers led by Sanford Burnham Prebys assistant professor Lukas Chavez, Ph.D., The results appear in Nature Communications.

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Scienmag

APRIL 8, 2022

UNSW researchers have used CRISPR gene editing – a type of ‘molecular scissors’ – to understand how deletions in one area of the genome can affect the expression of nearby genes.

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