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of Children’s Hospital at TriStar Centennial in Nashville, Tennessee, and colleagues found that geneediting using CRISPR-Cas9 is safe and feasible and can provide clinical benefit to patients with sickle cell disease and transfusion-dependent ß-thalassemia. ASH: CRISPR-Cas9 GeneEditing Promising in TDT, SCD.
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“We are excited to welcome Chris, a highly regarded drug developer and team builder who brings to Notch great depth of experience and expertise in development of cell therapies, geneediting, and cell engineering spanning discovery through IND,” said David Main , President and Chief Executive Officer of Notch.
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ERS Genomics – Ireland’s ERS Genomics Limited, and Germany’s Vivlion GmbH, announced a non-exclusive license agreement granting Vivlion access to ERS Genomics’ CRISPR/Cas9 patent portfolio, to enhance Vivlion’s geneediting reagents and screening services. for its cGMP-compliant CHOSOURCE platform. in Mainland China.
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Notably, we never modify the DNA of these cells, which avoids some of the safety concerns that have been reported with certain gene-editing technologies. From these cells we apply proprietary methods to manufacture pure populations of only the cell types which we wish to use in patients.
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ImmunoGen has announced an agreement granting rights to Vertex Pharmaceuticals to carry out research using antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) technology for the discovery of new targeted conditioning agents. The research using ImmunoGen’s technology will enable the discovery of the agents for use with geneediting.
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