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.

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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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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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Bio Pharma Dive

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The trial would be the first test of a systemically administered gene editing treatment that uses the Nobel Prize-winning technology to alter DNA.

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BioPharma Reporter

JANUARY 9, 2023

The collaboration will combine ReCodeâs delivery technology with AskBioâs gene editing and DNA cargoes to develop gene correction therapies for liver and lung diseases.

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Scienmag

MARCH 21, 2022

Wilmington, DE, (MARCH 21, 2022) – A new study from scientists at ChristianaCare’s Gene Editing Institute is advancing the safety and efficacy of using CRISPR gene editing in patient treatments by demonstrating how to identify and evaluate the broad-based biological impact of gene editing on targeted tissues, where the edits are designed to fully disable (..)

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XTalks

MAY 22, 2024

In this episode, Ayesha spoke with John Finn, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Tome Biosciences , a company developing programmable gene insertion (PGI) technology. PGI is a cutting-edge gene editing technology that allows for the insertion of large sequences of DNA with site-specific precision.

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BioSpace

APRIL 29, 2024

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

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BioTech 365

JANUARY 28, 2021

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: TALEN gene editing tool more efficient than CRISPR-Cas9 in compact DNA: study.TALEN gene editing tool more efficient than CRISPR-Cas9 in compact DNA: study aliu Thu, 01/28/2021 – … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Current scientific techniques are not yet safe or effective enough to be used to create gene-edited babies, an international committee says. The world’s first gene-edited babies were born in China in November 2018. Why is gene-editing babies controversial? The committee was set up in response.

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STAT News

MARCH 16, 2023

CRISPR, by contrast, lets you cut almost any stretch of DNA with a simple chemical code. Many of these once beloved tools were tossed aside when CRISPR came along, having helped few actual patients but driven plenty of graduate students to exhaustion. They were stubborn, inflexible enzymes, requiring endless engineering.

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Scienmag

JULY 18, 2022

HOUSTON – (July 18, 2022) – Rice University researchers have demonstrated that CRISPR-Cas9, increasingly famous as a gene-editing tool, can be employed in powerful additional ways in human 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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BioTech 365

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: New tool offers ways to improve CRISPR gene-editing method.The ability to edit the genome by altering the DNA sequence inside a living cell is powerful for research … Continue reading →

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BioTech 365

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: Advancing gene editing with new CRISPR/Cas9 variant.Using a new variant to repair DNA will improve both safety and effectiveness of the much-touted CRISPR-Cas9 tool in genetic research, … Continue reading →

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

CRISPR gene editing has transformed research, but it is not perfect, and can sometimes target unintended genes; to watch CRISPR enzymes respond to different genes, Leipzig University researchers developed a new method using DNA origami and were able to me Credit: Image courtesy of Julene Madariaga Marcos.

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STAT News

MARCH 9, 2023

On the third and final day of the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, the leading world experts in germline editing — that is, the practice of altering the DNA of sperm, eggs, and embryos — took center stage at the Francis Crick Institute in London to share their latest work.

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XTalks

AUGUST 29, 2022

Now a common gene editing tool, the popularity of the CRISPR-Cas9 system has increased over the past decade. CRISPR is notable for engineering living cells, allowing scientists to edit, turn off, delete, or replace genes in a cell’s genome. Harnessing the Cellular Engineering Potential of CRISPR.

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BioPharma Reporter

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The use of CRISPR, the genetic scissors that allow scientists to edit the instruction manual of life, DNA, has drawn massive global attention over the last several years.

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BioTech 365

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: CRISPR meets Pac-Man: New DNA cut-and-paste tool enables bigger gene edits.Gene editing for the development of new treatments, and for studying disease as well as normal function … Continue reading →

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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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BioTech 365

APRIL 9, 2021

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: New, reversible CRISPR method can control gene expression while leaving underlying DNA sequence unchanged.Over the past decade, the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system has revolutionized genetic engineering, allowing … Continue (..)

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 8, 2023

The ttLNP platform can deliver a range of high-impact genomic payloads, including gene editing, siRNA, mRNA, DNA and gene-writing apparatus, to tissues, cells and organs. The development will be advanced through both internal pipeline programmes and external collaborations.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Using a new variant to repair DNA will improve both safety and effectiveness of the much-touted CRISPR-Cas9 tool in genetic research, Michigan Medicine researchers say. Eugene Chen, M.D., […].

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Roots Analysis

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Presently, there are several companies and universities, which are exploring the potential of different gene editing technologies beyond CRISPR for basic research, and the development of gene editing solutions. Genome Editing is a way of making changes in the DNA.

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pharmaphorum

APRIL 23, 2021

CRISPR Therapeutics is to receive a hefty $900m payment from Vertex after the companies amended a collaboration to develop, manufacture and market a gene editing therapy for sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia.

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Camargo

JULY 27, 2021

It is a comprehensive term which encompasses a large variety of therapy products including viral and bacterial vectors, plasmid DNA, human gene editing technology, and patient-specific cellular gene therapy. Additionally, gene editing allows us either to remove or to modify harmful genes.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 13, 2022

Verve Therapeutics has started dosing patients in a phase 1b trial of its in vivo gene-editing drug for high cholesterol, designed to permanently switch off the PCSK9 gene with a one-shot treatment. Other CRISPR-based therapies generate a DSB at a precise location, after which cellular processes carry out the editing function.

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STAT News

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

A man with muscular dystrophy who was first in line to receive an experimental gene editing therapy tailor made to treat the cause of his rare form of the disease has died. The clinical trial was to be the first time anyone got a gene editing therapy for muscular dystrophy.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 7, 2021

Gene editing firm CRISPR Therapeutics has announced a collaboration with US biotech Nkarta to develop natural killer (NK) cell therapies for cancer. It’s at the forefront of gene editing although the technology has spawned rivals including Intellia Therapeutics, Caribou Biosciences, Sangamo Therapeutics and Mammoth Biosciences.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Dr Jennifer Harbottle, senior scientist in the R&D Base Editing team of PerkinElmer’s Horizon Discovery business, looks at progress made in the realms of biotechnology and next-generation diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics, including the application of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in developing and refining cell therapies.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 1, 2023

The drug candidate targets DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK). Merck also provides a wide range of products including lab water systems, gene editing tools, cell lines, antibodies and end-to-end systems. The drug candidate is administered through the oral route in the form of capsule and tablet.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 1, 2023

The drug candidate targets DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK). Merck also provides a wide range of products including lab water systems, gene editing tools, cell lines, antibodies and end-to-end systems. The drug candidate is administered through the oral route in the form of capsule and tablet.

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Worldwide Clinical Trials

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

For example, once considered incurable and terminal, patients with sickle cell disease may reach new summits in their lives with gene editing technologies such as CRISPR to repair affected DNA and, in some cases, functionally cure the condition.

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