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Merck and Orna partner for RNA technology-based vaccines and therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Merck (MSD outside North America) has entered a partnership agreement with Orna Therapeutics for discovering, developing and marketing various programmes based on next-generation RNA technology. By self-circularisation, Orna’s oRNA technology makes circular ribonucleic acids (oRNAs) from linear RNAs.

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How does circVec technology compare to conventional mRNA expression? 

Drug Discovery World

Circio has announced updated in vivo data that demonstrates a substantial durability advantage of Circio’s circVec technology over conventional mRNA expression. design is performing very well in vivo , and Circio has now validated expression for up to five months. design. “The circVec 2.1

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Moderna seals pact with Life Edit Therapeutics to tackle genetic diseases with mRNA-based gene editing

BioPharma Reporter

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.

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Ginkgo acquires machine learning biotech Patch Biosciences

Drug Discovery World

Ginkgo Bioworks has acquired Patch Biosciences, with the intention to strengthen its gene therapy services, cell therapy services, and RNA therapeutics services. JB Michel, CEO and co-founder of Patch Biosciences: “Joining Ginkgo Bioworks represents an exciting step in our journey to engineer better genetic medicines.

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Moderna partners with Life Edit for mRNA gene editing therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

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.”

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This week in drug discovery (13-16 May) 

Drug Discovery World

The top stories: Gene therapy cures profound genetic deafness within 24 weeks The investigational gene therapy DB-OTO improved hearing to normal levels in a child (dosed at 11 months of age) within 24 weeks, according to trial data presented at the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) annual conference.

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Advances in Genetic Medicine May Be Outpacing Some Clinicians’ Understanding, But Pharmaceutical Marketers Can Do Much to Address the Problem

Pharma Marketing Network

Almost two decades after the human genome was sequenced, a trickle of new genetic medicines (i.e., 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.