Moderna inks another gene editing deal
Bio Pharma Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
The messenger RNA specialist said Wednesday it is teaming up with Life Edit Therapeutics to develop therapies that can modify genes “in vivo.”
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Bio Pharma Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
The messenger RNA specialist said Wednesday it is teaming up with Life Edit Therapeutics to develop therapies that can modify genes “in vivo.”
Bio Pharma Dive
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
An alliance with the startup brings Vertex an RNA-based medicine for the disease, adding to a portfolio that already includes a gene editing treatment.
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Bio Pharma Dive
AUGUST 18, 2022
The company plans to soon seek approval of a once-monthly preventive drug for hereditary angioedema, a disease other drugmakers are targeting with gene editing and RNA medicines.
Pharmaceutical Technology
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
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. Our novel editing systems have the potential to precisely modify gene targets for both in vivo and ex vivo therapeutic development.”
Pharmaceutical Technology
MAY 25, 2023
ElevateBio has raised $401m in a Series D financing round for advancing its technology platforms to expedite the design, production and development of cell and gene therapies. The technology platforms include the Life Edit gene editing platform, an RNA, cell, protein, vector engineering and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) platform.
Bio Pharma Dive
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
The RNA drug developer is paying the richly-funded startup $80 million in a wide-ranging alliance that marks its first foray into DNA editing medicines.
STAT News
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Ionis Pharmaceuticals, the California company that turned RNA-targeting medicines from an unproven idea into blockbuster drugs, is now expanding into a new class of therapeutics that treat disease by editing DNA. On Monday, the company announced a partnership with Metagenomi to kickstart these efforts.
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Shape Therapeutics is evolving programmable RNA medicines that push the limits of current gene editing capabilities. BioSpace spoke with CSO David Huss.
XTalks
DECEMBER 14, 2022
Expanding upon the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system, researchers at MIT have designed a new technique called PASTE gene editing that can cut out defective genes and replace them with new genes in a safer and more efficient way. The PASTE gene editing technique was recently published in Nature Biotechnology.
Pharmaceutical Technology
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Under the terms of the deal, the company will receive non-exclusive rights to CRISPR/Cas9, a gene-editing technology of CRISPR Therapeutics, for the development of potentially curative T1D cell therapies. The gene-editing technology allows for precise, directed changes to genomic DNA.
BioPharma Reporter
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
The messenger RNA (mRNA) specialist Moderna has teamed up with ElevateBio-owned Life Edit Therapeutics to develop gene editing therapies that are delivered into patients in vivo.
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. From the Bench to Patient Therapeutics.
pharmaphorum
JULY 13, 2022
Verve Therapeutics has started dosing patients in a phase 1b trial of its in vivo gene-editing drug for high cholesterol, designed to permanently switch off the PCSK9 gene with a one-shot treatment. Other CRISPR-based therapies generate a DSB at a precise location, after which cellular processes carry out the editing function.
pharmaphorum
JUNE 28, 2021
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.
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JUNE 20, 2024
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The Pharma Data
JANUARY 19, 2021
A naturally occurring system for tuning CRISPR-Cas9 expressing in bacteria, identified in a study published in Cell , could have implications for gene editing therapies as well. A CRISPR-Cas9 system has two components: the Cas9 guide RNA that directs the system to edit a particular gene, and the CRISPR “scissors” that make the cut.
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. The product is the most advanced gene-editing approach in development for transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TDT) and severe sickle cell disease. Photo courtesy of Science Advances.
Delveinsight
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
ADARx bags USD 75 Million to advance its RNA tech pipeline. ADARx Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company developing RNA targeting therapeutics , announced the completion of a USD 75 million Series B financing to progress its drug development pipeline. SR One Capital Management and OrbiMed Advisors co-led Series B. Simeon George, M.D.,
Pharma Marketing Network
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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. greater safety, transient and reversible effect on gene expression).
Delveinsight
JANUARY 14, 2021
Last year, the company disclosed its gene-writing service, which combined various gene editing, manufacturing, and synthesizing technologies to provide more tailored therapeutic instructions to genetic code. Verve Therapeutics has an aim to bring one-and-done gene editing treatments to heart disease.
The Pharma Data
DECEMBER 13, 2020
“Our company and R&D portfolio are entering into an exciting phase, as evidenced by the recent close of Series B financing and submission of the first gene editing product IND in China,” said Dong Wei, Ph.D.?CEO Prior to joining EdiGene, he was Vice President of KLUS Pharma and focused on cell therapy and new technologies.
Camargo
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Pharmaceutical Technology
MAY 23, 2023
ReNAgade Therapeutics has burst onto the RNA technology scene by announcing a $300m financing round. With its delivery system, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech says it aims to “address major limitations in RNA therapeutics by enabling the delivery of RNA medicines to previously inaccessible tissues and cells in the body.”
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. Epigenetic Editing with CRISPR. pyogenes dCas9.
The Pharma Data
MARCH 7, 2022
By combining CRISPR technology with a protein designed with artificial intelligence (AI), it is possible to awaken individual dormant genes by disabling the chemical “off switches” that silence them. The chemical modifications that regulate gene activity are called epigenetic markers. it can be reawakened.
The Pharma Data
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XTalks
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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals announced promising results from its HELIOS-B Phase III clinical trial evaluating vutrisiran, an investigational RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutic for treating transthyretin amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM). As of March 2024, the FDA has approved six small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapies.
XTalks
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Over 26 weeks of Sunlenca combined with other antiretroviral drugs, 81 percent of participants achieved HIV RNA suppression, reaching levels low enough to be considered undetectable. These findings signify a significant step forward in the development of AGT103-T as a potential gene therapy for HIV. percent in the placebo group.
XTalks
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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. These modifications regulate gene expression without altering the sequence or structure of DNA.
XTalks
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The Pharma Data
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Bayer strengthens gene therapy portfolio with lipid nanoparticle technology from Acuitas Therapeutics Bayer AG is joining forces with Acuitas Therapeutics, Inc., This delivery technology protects the messenger RNA (mRNA) payload after administration allowing it to be safely and effectively delivered into cells.
Delveinsight
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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. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Beam aims to make more precise edits with genetic medicines, which employ base-editing.
pharmaphorum
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Pharmaceutical Technology
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XTalks
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XTalks
AUGUST 2, 2023
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XTalks
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XTalks
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XTalks
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Gene therapy has shown promise in treating cancers that are particularly difficult to manage such as neuroblastoma and Wilms tumor using CAR-T cell therapy, CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing and RNA-based interventions to target genetic drivers of disease.
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