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For $500 million, Novartis will acquire DTx Pharma and its preclinical neurological disease drugs, marking the Swiss company’s latest investment in gene-silencing medicines.
After initial rejection from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) last year, the non-departmental public body of the Department of Health in England has now given the green light to the genesilencing treatment Givlaari (givosiran) for the treatment of the rare metabolic disorder, acute intermittent porphyria (AIP).
UK biotech e-therapeutics has a new CEO, with executive chairman and former Silence Therapeutics chief Ali Mortazavi chosen to spearhead the next stage in the company’s development into genesilencing and other areas. The post New CEO Mortazavi takes UK biotech e-therapeutics into genesilencing appeared first on.
Two years after starting to work together, Novo Nordisk and Dicerna have selected the first candidate from a joint project to find new, gene-silencing drugs for liver-related cardiometabolic diseases. The post Novo Nordisk’s genesilencing alliance with Dicerna bears first fruit appeared first on.
Programmable Oligonucleotide Delivery System (PODS), developed by Sixfold Bioscience, is a versatile system which delivers short interfering RNA (siRNA) genesilencing cargo to specific cancer cells.
Credit: TMIMS RNA interference is a gene regulatory mechanism in which the expression of specific genes is downregulated by endogenous microRNAs or by small interfering RNAs (siRNAs). To improve their stability, most of the developed siRNA-based […].
UK cost-effectiveness watchdog NICE is set to recommend NHS use of Alnylam’s gene-silencing therapy Givlaari in England and Wales for the rare disease acute hepatic porphyria (AHP), after its advisors issued a positive verdict on the drug.
billion takeover of gene-silencing specialist Dicerna Pharma last year, another deal aimed at extending its R&D capabilities by bolting on a new platform technology – in this case RNA interference (RNAi) drugs. The move follows Novo Nordisk’s $3.3
RNA therapeutics are a novel class of biopharmaceuticals that harness the power of RNA molecules for the treatment and prevention of a wide range of disorders, including oncological, and genetic disorders as well as infectious diseases. Non-coding RNAs include antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) and RNA aptamers.
In addition, Sylentis, a biotech company specializing in ophthalmic drugs and RNA interference (RNAi) technology, initiated a Phase III study in 2021. Tivanisiran is a preservative-free eye drop that uses RNAi technology, specifically genesilencing, to target and control the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease.
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. — Eric Topol (@EricTopol) June 26, 2021.
InteRNA is focusing on the development of gene-silencing drugs based on microRNA, naturally occurring, non-coding strands of RNA that are thought to regulate gene expression in cells.
Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk must like what it has seen in its two-year-old alliance with gene-silencing specialist Dicerna Pharma – it has just agreed to acquire the biotech for $3.3 billion in cash.
The tool could also prove to be safer than conventional CRISPR-based gene therapies as it does not involve DNA editing, and thus would not cause potentially harmful off-target genomic changes. Genes can be switched on with a complementary tool called CRISPRon that has also been described in the paper. . Epigenetic Editing with CRISPR.
Tivanisiran is based on genesilencing technology using RNA interference (RNAi) and selectively inhibits production of the transient receptor potential cation channel (TRPV1).
The US biotech has just reported phase 2 trial results with the small, interfering RNA (siRNA) gene-silencing drug showing that it an cause a 90% or greater reduction in Lp(a) levels – a risk factor for cardiovascular disease – that was sustained over 48 weeks of follow-up.
The FDA has approved Alnylam’s genesilencing drug Oxlumo, the first treatment for primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1), an ultra-rare and life-threatening genetic disorder.
Alnylam’s gene-silencing drug Amvuttra has been recommended as a treatment for hereditary transthyretin-related (ATTR) amyloidosis by NICE, paving the way for the drug to be made available on the NHS in England and Wales.
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.
The tool could also prove to be safer than conventional CRISPR-based gene therapies as it does not involve DNA editing, and thus would not cause potentially harmful off-target genomic changes. Genes can be switched on with a complementary tool called CRISPRon that has also been described in the paper. . Epigenome Editing with CRISPR.
In summer, Alnylam’s genesilencing drug Oxlumo, the first treatment for primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1), an ultra-rare and life-threatening genetic disorder Oxlumo was approved in the European Union and the US. It was the third approval from Alnylam’s pipeline of RNA interference therapeutics to make it to market.
those that modify the expression of an individual’s genes or repair abnormal genes) has entered clinical practice, including 11 RNA therapeutics, 2 in vivo gene therapies, and 2 gene-modified cell therapies. Almost two decades after the human genome was sequenced, a trickle of new genetic medicines (i.e.,
Oxlumo works by degrading HAO1 messenger RNA and reducing the synthesis of GO, which inhibits hepatic production of oxalate – the toxic metabolite responsible for the clinical manifestations of PH1. HAO1 encodes glycolate oxidase (GO), an enzyme upstream of the disease-causing defect in PH1.
The present hATTR treatment market constitutes compounds that stabilize the TTR tetramers, a TTR-directed small interfering RNA, and a TTR-directed antisense oligonucleotide, along with supportive therapies. Gene-silencing Therapies. hATTR market : In The Pipeline.
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