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Gene editing: beyond the hype

pharmaphorum

Genome editing is an exciting but still nascent field, and companies in the area face as many obstacles as they do opportunities. Maybe in 50 years’ time we’ll be using gene editing to lower cholesterol, but it won’t replace statins in anyone but those with life threatening mutations for a long time”. Zinc fingers.

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CAMP4’s funding influx paves the way for tapping regulatory RNA to treat urea cycle disorders

Pharmaceutical Technology

The most common marketed drugs in this space aim to address the hyperammonaemia caused by the defective genes in this disorder. Ultragenyx uses adeno-associated virus 8 (AAV8) gene therapy to induce stable OTC gene expression. This treatment activates the OTC gene so that ammonia can be removed from the blood.

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Gene Accessibility May Explain Why Alzheimer’s Gene, APOE4, is Less Dangerous for People of African Descent

Drug Discovery Today

Hussman Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have found that variations in chromatin accessibility, and thus gene expression, may explain why people of European descent with APOE4 gene variants have a greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease than people of African descent with similar genetics.

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Alnylam identifies gene to lower abdominal fat and decrease cardiovascular risk

Pharmaceutical Technology

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and collaborators have identified rare mutations in the INHBE gene that is expressed in the liver, related to a lower waist-to-hip ratio for body mass index (BMI), which is often used as an indicator of abdominal fat and is correlated with the risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and coronary heart disease.

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Novel artificial genomic DNA can replicate and evolve outside the cell

Scienmag

Professor Norikazu Ichihashi and his colleagues at the University of Tokyo have successfully induced gene expression from a DNA, characteristic of all life, and evolution through continuous replication extracellularly using cell-free materials alone, such as nucleic acids and proteins for the first time.

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10x Genomics Puts Single Cell Analysis Within Reach of All With Low Throughput Gene Expression Kit

BioTech 365

10x Genomics Puts Single Cell Analysis Within Reach of All With Low Throughput Gene Expression Kit 10x Genomics Puts Single Cell Analysis Within Reach of All With Low Throughput Gene Expression Kit Along with recent release of CellPlex, product increases … Continue reading →

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Tune Therapeutics Debuts with $40 Million to Fine-Tune the Human Genome

BioSpace

Tune claims TEMPO can rapidly target and adjust the epigenomic machinery, controlling gene expression and dictating how the DNA will be molded.