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Frontotemporal dementia: the state of treatment development

Pharmaceutical Technology

While there is no cure to this neurodegenerative condition, academics and companies are pushing through with research that could help patients and their families. Different approaches that are studied include antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), and gene therapies, which are in early clinical trials.

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Study resolves long-running controversy over critical step in gene silencing

Scienmag

BOSTON – A long-running debate over how an important gene-silencing protein identifies its targets has been resolved by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The findings could yield important implications for development of drugs to treat cancer and other diseases.

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Three-in-one approach boosts the silencing power of CRISPR

Scienmag

The ongoing effort to explore […].

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Intellia, Regeneron ace first trial with ‘in vivo’ CRISPR drug

pharmaphorum

The reductions matched the efficacy of current therapies for ATTR amyloidosis that require chronic dosing such as Alnylam’s Onpattro (patisiran) and Ionis/Akcea’s Tegsedi (inotersen) – both gene-silencing agents which can cost around $450,000 a year.

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Mathur studying cytosolic access and instability of DNA nanoparticles

Scienmag

Divita Mathur, Research Assistant Professor, is studying cytosolic access and instability of DNA nanoparticles. A number of candidate therapies such as CRISPR-Cas9 and gene silencing require the efficient delivery of functional nucleic acids to the cell cytosol and nucleus.

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Alnylam finds belly fat gene and drug target in UK Biobank study

pharmaphorum

Alnylam Pharma has made a name for itself, developing gene-silencing therapies for rare disorders, but its latest discovery could take it into a much larger category – metabolic and cardiovascular disease.

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Epigenetic Editing with CRISPR Might Be Easier Than We Thought

XTalks

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. It’s a great tool for controlling gene expression.”.

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