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News and Trends 10 Jun 2016

CRISPR Thx in yet another Collaboration, this time for Muscle Dystrophy

CRISPR Therapeutics has struck a deal with Anagenesis Biotechnologies, which has key technology for muscle stem cells. Together, they will tackle muscle disorders – including the rare disease Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). CRISPR Therapeutics (Basel, Switzerland) is the European champion of gene editing for health applications, a field that promises to revolutionize therapies – even if […]

June 10, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 1 Jun 2016

CRISPR Thx’ Founder: “We have over $250M in the bank”

So begins our series of videos documenting our biotech conference premier – Labiotech Refresh. Here Philip spoke with Rodger Novak, the CEO and founder of CRISPR Therapeutics, which is leading the biotech front on Gene Editing in Europe. Having the CEO of CRISPR Therapeutics come and speak at our first event was really exciting for […]

June 1, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 18 May 2016

Bayer claims CRISPR Patents for Gene-Editing Agreements

Bayer has signed a patent license agreement with ERS Genomics, that controls patents for the CRISPR-Cas9 system – a breakthrough gene-editing technology. Bayer Lifescience Center (BLSC) is the innovation division of German Giant Bayer, which aims to address challenges in the pharmaceutical and agro-industry. Its strategy is to establish collaborations with innovative Biotechs, and create a […]

May 18, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 21 Apr 2016

New CRISPR Tool can cut RNA too: Gene Editing just got even Easier!

The research team led by Emannuelle Charpentier, co-discoverer of the CRISPR/Cas9 system, has found that a new CRISPR system can also cleave RNA. Amazingly simple! The discovery of the CRISPR/Cas9 system revolutionised Biotechnology, unlocking a kind of ‘Golden age’ for gene editing – with a wide-reaching impact from therapeutics to SynBio. So, it’s no wonder that […]

April 21, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 29 Mar 2016

The CRISPR ‘Crew’ continues World Tour of Scientific Prize Collection

CRISPR remains in the spotlight as the scientific discovery of the century. A long list of ‘inventors’ have been awarded the Canada Gairdner Awards, which recognise innovative biomedical research. The Gairdner Foundation (Canada) has chosen its 2016 picks for the ‘world’s best and brightest’ research in the biomedical sciences. The lucky winners this year work […]

March 29, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 4 Mar 2016

This Megavirus has its own CRISPR-like Defense System

MIMIVIRE is the name French researchers have given to the immunity mechanism of mimivirus, and that they have now described in a new paper for Nature. What is a mimivirus? What is viral immunity? What is life? What is CRISPR? Well, for the last question, you should read our review on CRISPR. As for the rest, […]

March 4, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 23 Feb 2016

UK Start-Up Gets €380k to Understand Cancer with CRISPR

Desktop Genetics, a small bioinformatics start-up out of London, has won a substantial grant to understand why some cancer cells just won’t quit. To do this, it relies on CRISPR, their expertise with genetic data, and research from Imperial College London. Desktop Genetics has already proven that it can move some money, with a €1.87 […]

February 23, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 1 Feb 2016

Huge Milestone: UK Approves CRISPR Editing on Human Embryos

This could be a HUGE game-changer for Europe’s research on stem cells, and more broadly Gene Editing…. Research on human embryos is a very touchy subject. And when you want to allow the use of the most powerful gene-editing tool on them, it’s becomes even touchier. Research on human embryos has been forbidden almost everywhere (with exception to China […]

February 1, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 26 Jan 2016

2011-2015: What a Fantastic 5 Years for European Biotech

The crisis of 2008 hit the Biotech sector hard, and it wasn’t clear how the Biotech industry would get back on track. But now, end of 2015, we can definitely say the Biotech industry did extremely well and probably better than most of the analysts would have predicted… So what were the major news stories […]

January 26, 2016 - 5 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 22 Dec 2015

Serious Genetic Diseases have a New CRISPR Dream Duo Venture worth in Excess of €275M

Blood disorders, blindness and congenital heart disease? The new Bayer Life Science Center (BLSC) in Germany and CRISPR Therapeutics (Switzerland) have now created a joint Venture to tackle cures for these rare genetic defects. CRISPR Therapeutics will contribute its proprietary CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology and intellectual property, while Bayer will make available its protein engineering expertise […]

December 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 11 Dec 2015

Digital CRISPR Cloud Services: An Appealing Product to Big Bioinformatics Investors like Illumina

London’s Desktop Genetics and their remote CRISPR and digital genetics platform has caught the eye of US Illumina – the US Competitor to German Giant QIAGEN in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)… Desktop Genetics (DeskGen) is an online service that researchers can use to design CRISPR gene editing experiments, purchase reagents and find commercial entities to […]

December 11, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 2 Dec 2015

Crops Successfully Edited with CRISPR have no Transgenes! Is this Still GMO?

The CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing tool is allowing rapid scientific advances in many fields, including human health. Now it has been shown that crop research can also benefit the fight for improved Food Security. Research at the John Innes Centre and the Sainsbury Lab (UK) have successfully edited crops so that future generations of these veggies have […]

December 2, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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CRISPR Thx in yet another Collaboration, this time for Muscle Dystrophy

CRISPR Thx’ Founder: “We have over $250M in the bank”

Bayer claims CRISPR Patents for Gene-Editing Agreements

New CRISPR Tool can cut RNA too: Gene Editing just got even Easier!

The CRISPR ‘Crew’ continues World Tour of Scientific Prize Collection

This Megavirus has its own CRISPR-like Defense System

UK Start-Up Gets €380k to Understand Cancer with CRISPR

Huge Milestone: UK Approves CRISPR Editing on Human Embryos

2011-2015: What a Fantastic 5 Years for European Biotech

Serious Genetic Diseases have a New CRISPR Dream Duo Venture worth in Excess of €275M

Digital CRISPR Cloud Services: An Appealing Product to Big Bioinformatics Investors like Illumina

Crops Successfully Edited with CRISPR have no Transgenes! Is this Still GMO?

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