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Actio, a precision medicine startup, launches with $55M and a mouse lab partnership

Bio Pharma Dive

The two-year-old San Diego biotech is allied with The Jackson Laboratory to engineer better mouse models of the rare diseases it plans to target.

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Exscientia and Sanofi collaborate to develop AI-driven precision-engineered medicines

Pharma Times

The platform integrates primary human tissue samples into early target and drug discovery research.

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Sangamo’s cell therapy receives EC orphan medicinal product designation

Pharmaceutical Technology

Sangamo Therapeutics has received orphan medicinal product designation (OMPD) from the European Commission (EC) for its Investigational autologous Chimeric Antigen Receptor Regulatory T Cell (CAR-Treg) cell therapy, TX200, for solid organ transplantation.

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Synlogic’s SYNB1934 receives orphan drug status from US FDA

Pharmaceutical Technology

SYNB1934 consumes Phe in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract by leveraging genetic engineering of the drug or drug-carrying capsule, probiotic escherichia coli (E coli) Nissle. SYNB1934 has also gained rare paediatric disease designation (RPDD) from the FDA and orphan drug designation from the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

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How to help the medicine go down: how UMass Amherst scientists are helping to engineer the next generation of medications

Scienmag

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced that they have engineered a new class of material, called a “polyzwitterionic complex,” or “pZC,” which is able to both withstand the harsh acidic conditions of the stomach and then dissolve predictably in the comparatively gentle environment of the small intestine.

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STAT+: Engineered virus shows promise against aggressive form of breast cancer

STAT News

But a small new study suggests that help might come from an engineered virus. The subtype is considered particularly dangerous, as it tends to grow and spread more aggressively than other types, and it has fewer effective treatment options.

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Alentis Therapeutics raises funds to develop medicines for CLAUDIN-1

Pharmaceutical Technology

Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical firm Alentis Therapeutics has raised $105m in a Series C financing round for advancing transformational medicines targeting the CLAUDIN-1 protein. ALE.F02 is being developed for the treatment of advanced kidney, lung and liver fibrosis while ALE.C04 is a potential treatment to target CLDN1-positive tumours.

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