In Depth 3 Nov 2022
What’s on the horizon for gene editing-based therapies?
…genome can be transmitted to new generations of cells, so gene editing therapies can be used in tissues with a higher turnover rate, such as the liver in young children….
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In Depth 6 Jun 2024
CRISPR: A promising path to treating blindness
…out the disease genome for conditions causing blindness is critical to figuring out which pathologies can be targeted,” said Boparai. Moreover, the accuracy of the delivery as well as its…
Interview 22 Feb 2018
Could a New Approach Help Us to Overcome Resistance to HIV Treatment?
…field. However, he highlighted the difficulty in getting rid of the virus from the body: “The problem is that HIV is inserted into the genome of infected cells like long-lived…
News and Trends 12 Dec 2016
A New Antibiotic from Your Nose! Thanks to Functional Genomics
Could your nose lead to major discoveries in antibiotic production? Genome mining of nose bacteria has revealed a new powerful antibiotic. Functional genomics offers a powerful tool for the isolation…
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News and Trends 3 Jan 2023
Blacksmith Medicines merging with Forge Therapeutics
…containing a full characterization of the metalloenzyme genome including functions, metal cofactors, and associations to disease; and a first-of-its-kind metallo-CRISPR library of custom single guide RNAs. Blacksmith Medicines also has…
Best in Biotech 10 Oct 2023
Bridging Science and Art: Five bioartists you should know about
…the pet, in 1997. Kac’s controversial piece, Alba, was a genetically-modified rabbit whose genome was engineered to have the green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene found in jellyfish, that fluoresces green…
News and Trends 1 Jun 2022
Chinese biotech company looks to help global monkeypox drug development
…predicted protein structures are AI-generated, and based on the complete sequence of the genome of the epidemic strain in May 2022, the whole proteome of the 2018 West African virus…
News and Trends 10 Jul 2023
Existing cancer drug could be repurposed to fight certain aggressive cancers
…Loo Lin School of Medicine, both at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and the Genome Institute of Singapore at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), are seeking…
News and Trends 24 Feb 2023
Beyond Biotech podcast 35: Rare Disease Day
…This year, the day will be marked by more than 600 events in 106 countries. Replay and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center create Syena Replay, a genome…
News and Trends 4 Nov 2024
Top biotech deals of October 2024
…and multinational biopharma Genevant Sciences have agreed to combine Editas’ CRISPR Cas12a genome editing systems with Genevant’s lipid nanoparticle (LNP) technology to develop gene editing medicines. The deal will see…
Best in Biotech 22 Apr 2025
Seven biotechs to watch in the hepatitis B space
…gene editing Recent funding: $40 million public offering North Carolina-based company Precision Biosciences is developing its ARCUS genome editing to treat HBV, the first and only clinical-stage gene editing therapy for…
News and Trends 27 Feb 2018
This Small Molecule Protects the Muscles of Patients With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
…for gene therapies to correct errors in the genome. Sarepta, which paid $40M (€33M) upfront and agreed to up to $500M (€407M) in milestones to secure European rights to ezutromid,…
