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A new startup from Feng Zhang and an ex-Illumina executive zeroes in on the epigenome

Bio Pharma Dive

Moonwalk Biosciences, the latest biotech cofounded by the gene editing scientist, joins other startups aiming to alter gene expression without changing DNA.

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A startup emerges with $125M and plans to edit the epigenome

Bio Pharma Dive

Chroma Medicine's launch is the latest step in a decadeslong quest by drugmakers to capitalize on research into epigenetics, a way of controlling gene expression without altering DNA.

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Researchers speed identification of DNA regions that regulate gene expression

Scienmag

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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Leading innovators in IgG gene expressing animal models for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

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: IgG gene expressing animal models. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is the leading patent filer in IgG gene expressing animal models.

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Early-life social connections influence gene expression, stress resilience

Scienmag

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 […].

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Epigenic joins wave of startups raising cash to edit the epigenome

Bio Pharma Dive

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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Novel artificial genomic DNA can replicate and evolve outside the cell

Scienmag

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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