Scienmag

MAY 2, 2022

WINSTON-SALEM, NC – May 2, 2022 — Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) scientists working on CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing technology have developed a method to increase efficiency of editing while minimizing DNA deletion sizes, a key step toward developing gene editing therapies to treat genetic diseases.

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STAT News

MARCH 9, 2023

LONDON — Scientists at this year’s genome editing summit spent Tuesday showing the world just how far CRISPR -based medicines for treating human diseases have come in a decade.

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STAT News

MARCH 6, 2023

LONDON — The first gene-edited children were born in China five years ago , but it’s unlikely to happen again there anytime soon. That was the message Chinese scientists delivered Monday on the opening day of the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing in London.

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Scienmag

JANUARY 12, 2021

Martins Scientists have used gene-editing advances to achieve a tenfold increase in the production of super-bug targeting formicamycin antibiotics. Credit: Dr Dino J. Discovered within the last ten years, formicamycins have great […].

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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 treatment used a new version of CRISPR to turn on a backup copy of the dystrophin gene that mysteriously lies dormant in our muscles.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Drs Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have won this year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry in recognition of their work on the gene-editing technology CRISPR/Cas9. There is enormous power in this genetic tool, which affects us all. What started as a curiosity?driven, million) Nobel Prize award. “In

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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.

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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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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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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

She received a cord blood transplant to treat the AML, receiving stem cells carrying a genetic mutation (CCR?5/?32) The scientists stress that this is not a feasible treatment for most people with HIV, as a stem cell transplant can be a dangerous medical procedure that is only used for people with life-threatening conditions.

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XTalks

JANUARY 26, 2024

Innovations in Cancer Therapy CRISPR/Cas9, a groundbreaking gene-editing technology, has demonstrated significant potential in oncology, offering new avenues for cancer treatment. By tailoring treatments based on an individual’s genetic makeup, it may allow for more effective and targeted therapies.

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Worldwide Clinical Trials

MAY 30, 2024

Biotech Solutions: The Emergence of Various Cell, Gene, & Immunotherapy Options in ALS One up-and-coming area of research is gene therapy, which broadly encompasses any therapeutics that add or edit genetic material.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Scientists in Israel have used the CRISPR Cas-9 gene editing system to destroy cancerous cells in mice without damaging other cells. To conduct the research, the scientists used hundreds of mice with two of the most aggressive forms of cancer: glioblastoma and metastatic ovarian cancer. Photo courtesy of Science Advances.

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XTalks

JULY 14, 2022

A downstream approach has traditionally been used by scientists to map networks, wherein a gene for a protein is removed one at a time and the impact on the immune cell’s function is observed. CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing was used to simultaneously perturb thousands of genes by targeting specific points of genetic code.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Investigating the next generation of genetic medicine through RNA based therapies. RNA therapeutics is a rapidly expanding industry with increasingly growing potential for immunotherapy, personalised medicines, and treatment of genetic, infectious, and chronic diseases. Senior and expert scientists. Director, Genetic Medicine.

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XTalks

MAY 4, 2021

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the Whitehead Institute have developed a novel CRISPR-based tool called “CRISPRoff” that can switch off genes in human cells through epigenetic editing without altering the genetic sequence itself.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

CRISPR works as genetic scissors to edit parts of the genome. The CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system was first discovered to be endogenous in bacteria. Given the system’s powerful ability to make cuts in genes in a precise manner, the system is being leveraged in gene therapies.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

16, 2020 — Scientists are reporting early success with an experimental herpes vaccine that uses a genetically modified version of the virus. The gene edit prevents the virus from performing its normal evasive maneuver: hiding out in nervous system cells in order to elude the immune system. MONDAY, Nov.

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Delveinsight

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Beam Therapeutics has taken over a startup whose technology could proffer the biotech’s genetic medicines to more tissues in the body, widening the potential to approach more diseases. The gene-editing technologies, which have reached the clinic, CRISPR, zinc finger nucleases, and TALENs, make their edits by nicking DNA at the target site.

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XTalks

MAY 4, 2021

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the Whitehead Institute have developed a novel CRISPR-based tool called “CRISPRoff” that can switch off genes in human cells without editing the genetic sequence itself. Nearly one third of human genes lack CGIs, which would limit the use of the tool.

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Advarra

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Bottlenecks in the manufacturing process, supply chain issues such as accessibility of good manufacturing practice (GMP)-grade reagents, and shortages of qualified scientists and engineers have caused many therapies to fail at critical stages of the clinical development pipeline. But review issues are not the only problems.

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XTalks

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This has ushered in a new era of genomics that is fostering rapid, detailed and personalized insights into human genetics. Xtalks is celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with a special overview of notable female scientists who have made revolutionary contributions to the field of genetics.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 24, 2020

From rare disease drug approvals to treatments involving immunotherapies and gene therapies and awarding of a Nobel Prize to the inventors of the gene-editing tool CRISPR, 2020 was a year of great activity and productivity despite the backdrop of the pandemic. CRISPR Gene Editing Inventors Win Nobel Prize.

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XTalks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A study from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) has revealed that women with Alzheimer’s do better than men with the disease due to a genetic advantage conferred by their extra X chromosome. The Active Gene. Genetic Sex Differences in Disease. KDM6A Variant.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

DDL was founded in 1994, also originally started by a group of scientists operating in a university, also specialising in infectious diseases, but with more of a focus on HPV and Hepatitis. Viroclinics Biosciences – what it was called before the DDL purchase – was also well known for its specialist logistics infrastructure.

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