Ionis teams with Metagenomi and dives into gene editing
Bio Pharma Dive
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
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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Bio Pharma Dive
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
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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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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Pharmaceutical Technology
MARCH 28, 2023
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.
STAT News
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
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.
XTalks
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XTalks
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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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Scienmag
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XTalks
AUGUST 29, 2022
Viral vectors have traditionally been used in gene editing where the shells of viruses carry the template DNA into cells, but this method has its disadvantages. The CRISPR-Cas9 system works by having “spacer” sequences transcribed into short RNA sequences that can guide the system to the matching target in the DNA sequence of a cell.
XTalks
AUGUST 10, 2021
The test was developed by researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and several Boston area hospitals. A porous membrane was engineered to capture RNA on its surface. Image source: Wyss Institute at Harvard University.
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. Moderna will also assume further development, manufacturing, and commercialisation responsibilities on exercising a target option.
Scienmag
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XTalks
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Peer stated that his team plans to develop a treatment for all cancers and that their technique could be ready for humans within the next two years. CTX001 is being developed under a co-development and co-commercial agreement between the two organizations. Cas-9 represents the Cas9 protein, an enzyme that cuts foreign DNA.
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