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News and Trends 17 Oct 2022

PerkinElmer’s Horizon Discovery: the lowdown on base editing

PerkinElmer’s Horizon Discovery provides cell engineering tools and services for researchers in drug discovery and development. Horizon’s portfolio is focused on research reagents; screening and cell line engineering services; bioproduction cell lines; reference standards and base editing. Horizon’s base editing platform, Pin-point is a gene editing method with the ability to effect multiple single base edits […]

October 17, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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ChristianaCare spins out new gene-editing company CorriXR Therapeutics

ChristianaCare has spun out its first commercial biotech private start-up company, CorriXR Therapeutics. CorriXR Therapeutics will use CRISPR gene editing technology to develop new, clinically relevant oncologic therapeutics in areas of unmet medical need, starting with squamous cell carcinoma of the lung. Its close relationship with ChristianaCare and the ChristianaCare Gene Editing Institute positions it […]

October 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Oct 2022

Cytel signs agreement with two Scandinavian medicinal product companies

U.S.-based Cytel Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire Scandinavian companies SDS Life Sciences AB and SDS MedeQ AB. Cytel says the move will add new talent to the company’s strategic consulting group and bring additional capabilities for the development of drugs and medical devices. It says sponsors will also have easier access to […]

October 14, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 14 Oct 2022

A-Alpha Bio and Bristol Myers Squibb to collaborate on protein degradation

A-Alpha Bio, a synthetic biology and machine learning company that measures and engineers protein-protein interactions is to collaborate with Bristol Myers Squibb to discover molecular glue targets for protein degradation. A-Alpha will identify and characterize novel pairs of E3 ubiquitin ligases and targets that Bristol Myers Squibb will utilize for potential design and development of […]

October 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 13 Oct 2022

Plan launched to improve diversity of clinical trials

Help to improve the equity of clinical trials by providing site-level participant demographic data including race, sex, age and ethnicity has been revealed. Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, has launched the intelligent trials diversity module. The new module will help sponsors and clinical research organizations (CROs) benchmark the diversity of their trials and identify sites […]

October 13, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 13 Oct 2022

CMT Research Foundation funding boosts Samsara Therapeutics Charcot-Marie-Tooth treatment

The CMT Research Foundation (CMTRF), a non-profit focused solely on delivering treatments and cures for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, has invested in Samsara Therapeutics Inc. Samsara Therapeutics is a biotech company focusing on discovering and developing therapeutics to restore autophagy – the process by which cells recycle damaged or dysfunctional components. Samsara is developing several novel, […]

October 13, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 13 Oct 2022

Xcell Biosciences and aCGT Vector pushing ahead with cell and gene therapies

Xcell Biosciences Inc. (Xcellbio), an instrumentation company focused on cell and gene therapy applications, and aCGT Vector, a point-of-care cell and gene therapy-as-a-service (TaaS) company, are collaborating to improve manufacturing and analytic procedures to develop personalized cell and gene therapies for cancer patients. aCGT Vector will provide its point-of-care, GMP-licensed manufacturing platform to validate Xcellbio’s […]

October 13, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Startup Scout 13 Oct 2022

Boston Bioworks helps precision fermentation startups scale up

Precision fermentation startups have few options when looking for ways to scale up their technology. The newly launched scaling service provider Boston Bioworks aims to address this bottleneck. In the food protein industry, sustainability, climate change and animal welfare are a growing concern for many consumers, leading to soaring interest in alternative protein. This wide […]

October 13, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 13 Oct 2022

Odyssey Therapeutics raises $168M for oncology medicine portfolio

Biotech company Odyssey Therapeutics, Inc. has announced it has raised $168 million in series B financing. Odyssey Therapeutics is working on next generation precision immunomodulators and oncology medicines. The current round brings the total capital raised to $386 million. The proceeds will enable Odyssey to advance its portfolio of precision immunomodulators and oncology medicines in […]

October 13, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 12 Oct 2022

Boston Cell Standards wins FDA $510K clearance for anatomic pathology controls

A company standardizing cancer diagnostic tissue testing with the first immunohistochemistry (IHC) laboratory reference standards has received $510,000 clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The money will go towards Boston Cell Standards IHControls panel for evaluating breast cancers. The clearance represents regulatory approval. “IHControls represent a giant step forward in standardization in […]

October 12, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 12 Oct 2022

SiSaf takes steps with FDA for RNA therapeutic to treat rare genetic skeletal disorders

SiSaf Ltd, an RNA delivery and therapeutics company, is initiating the U.S. FDA Regulatory process to obtain orphan drug designation for SIS-101-ADO. SIS-101-ADO is a siRNA therapeutic for patients with autosomal dominant osteopetrosis type 2 (ADO2), a rare genetic skeletal disorder. The request for orphan drug designation and advancement through the regulatory process that SIS-101-ADO […]

October 12, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Interview 12 Oct 2022

Boosting pharma’s falling productivity with AI in drug discovery

The pharmaceutical industry is struggling with mounting costs of drug development. Generate Biomedicines’ CEO, Michael Nally, outlines the firm’s mission to tackle the trend by making drug discovery scalable. Over the decades, the pharma and biopharma industry has suffered a growing stagnation in productivity. According to a report from University College London in 2018, for […]

October 12, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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PerkinElmer’s Horizon Discovery: the lowdown on base editing

ChristianaCare spins out new gene-editing company CorriXR Therapeutics

Cytel signs agreement with two Scandinavian medicinal product companies

A-Alpha Bio and Bristol Myers Squibb to collaborate on protein degradation

Plan launched to improve diversity of clinical trials

CMT Research Foundation funding boosts Samsara Therapeutics Charcot-Marie-Tooth treatment

Xcell Biosciences and aCGT Vector pushing ahead with cell and gene therapies

Boston Bioworks helps precision fermentation startups scale up

Odyssey Therapeutics raises $168M for oncology medicine portfolio

Boston Cell Standards wins FDA $510K clearance for anatomic pathology controls

SiSaf takes steps with FDA for RNA therapeutic to treat rare genetic skeletal disorders

Boosting pharma’s falling productivity with AI in drug discovery

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