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Ionis teams with Metagenomi and dives into gene editing

Bio Pharma Dive

The RNA drug developer is paying the richly-funded startup $80 million in a wide-ranging alliance that marks its first foray into DNA editing medicines.

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Sartorius upscales gene therapy prowess with $2.6bn Polyplus acquisition

Pharmaceutical Technology

The deal will see Polyplus join the German life science group’s portfolio allowing the latter to leverage expertise in transfection reagents and plasmid DNA for gene therapy. to complete an in-house plasmid DNA facility in Marburg, Germany. “In In February 2023, the mRNA specialist BioNTech invested $43.8m

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Vertex signs licence deal with CRISPR Therapeutics for diabetes therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Vertex Pharmaceuticals has signed a new non-exclusive licensing agreement with CRISPR Therapeutics to expedite the development of its hypoimmune cell therapies to treat type 1 diabetes (T1D). The gene-editing technology allows for precise, directed changes to genomic DNA. The system comprises the Cas9 enzyme and a guide RNA.

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STAT+: After blazing trails in RNA-targeted drugs, Ionis jumps into gene editing

STAT News

Ionis Pharmaceuticals, the California company that turned RNA-targeting medicines from an unproven idea into blockbuster drugs, is now expanding into a new class of therapeutics that treat disease by editing DNA.    On Monday, the company announced a partnership with Metagenomi to kickstart these efforts.

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Why Proviral DNA Drug Resistance Testing is Useful in Guiding Treatment Decisions for HIV-1 Patients

XTalks

While ARV-based treatments work well to keep the virus suppressed and patients healthy — some for many years — resistance to one or more drugs in a treatment regimen can develop in some patients. HIV drug resistance occurs when virions develop mutations that make them less susceptible to given drugs. HIV Drug Resistance Testing.

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New CRISPR-Based Tool Called PASTE Gene Editing Inserts Large DNA Sequences at Desired Sites

XTalks

Developed by MIT researchers Jonathan Gootenberg and Omar Abudayyeh, PASTE (Programmable Addition via Site-specific Targeting Elements) gene editing technology can insert genes as long as 36,000 DNA base pairs to liver cells in mice as well as several types of human cells.

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A new hub for developing medicines of the future at the University of Gothenburg

Scienmag

Credit: Johan Wingborg In recent years, techniques have been developed to treat diseases with what are known as oligonucleotide drugs, based on short DNA or RNA molecules.