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JULY 30, 2024

Silently tucked away in our genomes, some of these bits of foreign DNA can get passed down through the generations. When viruses pay us a visit, they sometimes leave parts of themselves behind. They were long thought inactive, but we’ve since learned these stowaway sequences can be turned back on to wreak all sorts of […]

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Bio Pharma Dive

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Scientists at Pretzel believe fixing mutated mitochondrial DNA with a mix of small molecule therapies and gene editing could be key to solving a number of hard-to-treat diseases.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Synplogen and Ginkgo Bioworks have signed an MOU to expedite DNA manufacturing and gene therapy platform services in Japan.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Expanding upon the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system, researchers at MIT have designed a new technique called PASTE gene editing that can cut out defective genes and replace them with new genes in a safer and more efficient way. The PASTE gene editing technique was recently published in Nature Biotechnology.

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Worldwide Clinical Trials

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By Amy Raymond, PhD, PMP, Executive Director, Therapeutic Strategy Lead, Rare Disease Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) include cutting-edge approaches that offer the hope of a healthier, happier, and better tomorrow for a wide range of patient populations. The global nature of cell and gene therapy trials adds another layer of complexity.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 20, 2022

It has suspected for many years that some diseases may be linked to non-coding or ‘junk’ DNA, but the mechanism behind the pathology hasn’t been worked out. Junk DNA is a term used to describe the 97% of the genetic sequence in human cells found between the 3% coding for our 20,000 genes, once thought to be inert.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 10, 2023

Asklepios BioPharmaceutical has entered a research partnership and option agreement with ReCode Therapeutics for exploring its single-vector gene-editing platform. The new solution will enable complete gene insertion by delivering the gene-editing tool and DNA as mixed cargo to desired targets in one LNP.

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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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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

BRCA1 (BReast CAncer Gene 1), a key gene that becomes faulty in some instances, leading to breast and ovarian cancer, plays an important role in the body's DNA repair mechanisms. BRCA1, once mutated, can cause cancer to develop.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 29, 2021

Cutting edge’ is, for once, a truly apt description when it comes to gene editing – both because the field is pushing medicine into areas we might never have dreamed possible, and because these technologies involve literally cutting DNA at a specific point in the genome. Zinc fingers.

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STAT News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Intellia Therapeutics said Friday the first six patients to receive its CRISPR-based treatment for a genetic swelling disorder have safely had small, corrective changes made to dysfunctional DNA inside their liver cells.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 28, 2023

Under the terms of the deal, the company will receive non-exclusive rights to CRISPR/Cas9, a gene-editing technology of CRISPR Therapeutics, for the development of potentially curative T1D cell therapies. The gene-editing technology allows for precise, directed changes to genomic DNA.

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STAT News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The short history of CRISPR gene editing in humans has, with rare exception, been a history of triumphant progress: A patient apparently cured of sickle cell in 2019, six patients with toxic DNA knocked out of their liver last year, another six patients with a different strand of toxic liver DNA knocked out last week.  

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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 Innovation in Pharmaceuticals: Gene splicing using nucleases. Nucleases are enzymes that hydrolytically cleave the phosphodiester backbone of DNA.

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Scienmag

MAY 6, 2021

Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have developed a highly efficient method to address a major challenge in biology–identifying the genetic ‘switches’ that regulate gene expression. Credit: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital St.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The biotherapeutics market is rapidly growing, with 2021 seeing the highest-ever cell and gene therapy approval number. Gene therapy uses DNA to manipulate cells and correct defective genes, whereas cell therapy is the infusion or transplantation of cells into a patient. The future of cell and gene therapies.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Mount Sinai researchers have published a study in Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association that sheds new light on the role of DNA methylation in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

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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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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 10, 2021

Europe market has proved so hostile to gene therapies when it comes to pricing and reimbursement for gene therapies that bluebird bio has decided to quit the market altogether, according to Andrew Obenshain, president of its severe genetic diseases unit. — Brad Loncar (@bradloncar) August 9, 2021.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 20, 2022

Furthermore, researchers found that one of the genes turned on by these BET proteins is ACE2, the same protein that the virus depends on to get into cells. In the latest study, Gladstone graduate student Irene Chen and the team found that the BET proteins switch on genes that block viruses, in SARS-CoV-2 infected cells.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Professor Norikazu Ichihashi and his colleagues at the University of Tokyo have successfully induced gene expression from a DNA, characteristic of all life, and evolution through continuous replication extracellularly using cell-free materials alone, such as nucleic acids and proteins for the first time.

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Bio Pharma Dive

AUGUST 30, 2023

The China-based company is one of at least four young biotechs in a competitive race to use CRISPR tools to alter gene expression without changing DNA.

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Worldwide Clinical Trials

JUNE 13, 2024

Pharmacogenomics (PGx), the study of how genes affect a person’s response to drugs, has brought significant changes to the clinical trial industry. At Worldwide, our recent study delved into the intricacies of PGx, comparing two common methods of DNA sample collection: buccal swabs and blood samples. for buccal swabs and 93.2%

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STAT News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Scientists rely on gene synthesis technologies as a research tool for everything from basic research to vaccine development and drug target identification. Ever since the inception of gene synthesis, there have been concerns about possible misuse of synthetic genes.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

GenScript ProBio has announced a strategic collaboration with RVAC Medicines to manufacture GMP-grade plasmid DNA (pDNA) for the latter’s RVM-V001, an mRNA Covid-19 vaccine candidate. Cell & Gene Therapy coverage on Pharmaceutical Technology is supported by Cytiva.

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Pharma Times

MAY 9, 2022

Vital patent for Evotenix is anticipated to enable a new generation of DNA synthesis platforms

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 18, 2024

Charles River and Captain T Cell have signed a deal to produce plasmid DNA and retrovirus vectors for gene-modified cell therapy.

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Fierce Pharma

JUNE 3, 2024

subsidiary Bionova Scientific is launching a new business line to provide services around plasmid DNA (pDNA), the companies announced Monday. As part of the pDNA pivot, Bionova is setting up a new facility in The Woodlands, Texas.

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Scienmag

MARCH 22, 2021

Credit: WEHI, Australia Melbourne researchers have revealed how melanoma cells are flooded with DNA changes as this skin cancer progresses from early, treatable stages through to fatal end-stage disease.

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STAT News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

More than 155,000 Americans who shared their DNA for science are about to learn something in return: Do they have some particularly worrisome genes? It’s part of a  massive project to unravel how people’s genetics, environments, and habits interact to determine their overall health.

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BioSpace

APRIL 29, 2024

The technique taps CRISPR technology to rewrite defective genes without breaking DNA double helix strands. The FDA has cleared a clinical trial of an ex vivo prime editing candidate in patients with a rare disease, Prime Medicine announced Monday.

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The ability to edit the genome by altering the DNA sequence inside a living cell is powerful for research and holds enormous promise for the treatment of diseases. However, existing genome editing technologies frequently result in unwanted mutations or can fail to introduce any changes at all.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 8, 2023

GenScript ProBio has collaborated with the New York Blood Center Enterprises’ business unit, called Comprehensive Cell Solutions (CCS), to accelerate the development and manufacture of cell and gene therapies. Cell & Gene Therapy coverage on Pharmaceutical Technology is supported by Cytiva.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Just over a year after its first phase 3 trial of its Engensis gene therapy for painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) bombed, Helixmith has started dosing patients in a new study. The South Korean biotech says the DNA plasmid-based therapy has been administered to a patient at Innovative Research of West Florida.

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Scienmag

JULY 22, 2021

Strong social connections and greater maternal care early in life can influence molecular markers related to gene expression in DNA and future stress response, suggests a […]. Holekamp Having friends may not only be good for the health of your social life, but also for your actual health–if you’re a hyena, that is.

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STAT News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A new CRISPR startup — backed by some big names in venture capital — is planning to develop gene-editing treatments that can insert a genetic sequence of any length, at any location in the DNA strand, according to industry insiders and documents.

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Worldwide Clinical Trials

JUNE 15, 2022

At the end of May, we hosted a webinar titled “ Changing Times, Changing Therapies: Keeping Up with Advancements in Cell and Gene Therapies ” to provide a quick update on the latest advancements and ongoing in development of these advanced therapeutics. Clinical holds are becoming more common, especially in gene therapy programs.

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