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Moderna partners with Life Edit for mRNA gene editing therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

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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STAT+: CRISPR patent fight redux? A new battle is brewing among biotechs over next-gen gene-editing tools

STAT News

Genome editing summits are generally friendly, nerdy affairs, but for a moment at a Lisbon hotel last June, the conversation at the FASEB genome engineering conference grew tense.

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STAT+: CRISPR? Nah. A new startup bets on an old approach to gene editing

STAT News

Before there was CRISPR, aspiring genome editors relied on an island of misfit, less elegantly named enzymes: Zinc-finger nucleases, TALENs, recombinases. They were stubborn, inflexible enzymes, requiring endless engineering. They were stubborn, inflexible enzymes, requiring endless engineering.

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AstraZeneca pays record 660% premium for gene editing company LogicBio

pharmaphorum

AstraZeneca’s rare disease firm Alexion is set to expand its genomic medicine portfolio with the acquisition of gene editing specialist LogicBio Therapeutics, in a deal worth approximately $68 million. The post AstraZeneca pays record 660% premium for gene editing company LogicBio appeared first on.

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Editas Medicine Presents Data on New SLEEK Gene Editing Technology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers Meeting

BioTech 365

Editas Medicine Presents Data on New SLEEK Gene Editing Technology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers Meeting Editas Medicine Presents Data on New SLEEK Gene Editing Technology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers Meeting … Continue reading →

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Generating Over a Billion Cells with CRISPR for Next Generation Cell Therapies

XTalks

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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Bringing in Light Genome Editing Techniques: ZFN, TALEN and Meganucleases

Roots Analysis

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.