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News and Trends 26 Jan 2023

Milestone for gene-edited therapy for sickle cell disease

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Europe) and CRISPR Therapeutics have announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has validated the Marketing Authorization Application of exa-cel for the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD) and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TDT). The submission is supported by two global phase 3 studies investigating exa-cel as a potential one-time therapy for people with […]

January 26, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Jan 2023

Alcohol-related liver disease: mechanism could lead to new therapies

Alcohol-related liver disease is among the most common causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Due to an incomplete understanding of the factors contributing to disease development, liver transplantation is still the only available cure. A team led by Tim Hendrikx from MedUni Vienna’s Department of Laboratory Medicine has now uncovered a new mechanism that plays […]

January 24, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Jan 2023

First leukemia patient dosed with SMART101

Smart Immune has announced that the first adult leukemia patient has been dosed with SMART101, a T-cell progenitor cell injection derived from donor stem cells using ProTcell at Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center (MSK). The phaseI/II trial is a multicenter, open-label, first-in-human study expected to enroll up to 36 adult and pediatric patients with hematological malignancies, […]

January 24, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Jan 2023

Ubiquigent and University of Glasgow to collaborate on drug discovery

Ubiquigent Limited, a drug discovery and development company harnessing novel deubiquitinase (DUB) modulators as new therapeutics for areas of high unmet medical need, is supporting a Master’s student at the University of Glasgow (UoG) to undertake a research project on USP30, a DUB implicated in neruodegenerative, renal, and cardiovascular diseases. Overseen by structural biology experts […]

January 24, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Jan 2023

Funding for university to develop new motor neuron disease therapies

Medical research charity LifeArc, the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MND Association) and the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation have jointly awarded £1 million ($1.2 million) to researchers at University College London (UCL) to progress two pioneering new therapies that could help transform the lives of those living with motor neuron disease (MND). The research grants are […]

January 24, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Jan 2023

CytoReason expands deal with Sanofi to look at IBD

CytoReason, which creates computational disease modeling, has announced an expansion of its collaboration with Sanofi. The multi-year collaboration will further fuel Sanofi’s target discovery efforts via CytoReason’s AI platform in the field of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), to identify patient subtypes and pair them with IBD targets. In 2021, Cytoreason announced the initiation of a […]

January 24, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Jan 2023

Beyond Biotech podcast 30: Advanced Therapies Congress, BioAlps, Bionter, C2i Genomics

The guests on our podcast this week are: Jessica Robinson, project director, Advanced Therapies Congress, Terrapinn: Tobias Werk, CEO, Bionter; Asaf Zviran, CEO and co-founder of C2i Genomics; and Magali Bischof, secretary general of BioAlps. We also have our weekly commentary from Travis McCready at global commercial real estate services company JLL. This week’s podcast […]

January 20, 2023

CRISPR Therapeutics, CRISPR-Cas9, genome editing, biotech

News and Trends 20 Jan 2023

Aldevron launches type-V CRISPR Nuclease

Aldevron, which develops and manufactures plasmid DNA, RNA and proteins for the biotech industry, has launched Eureca-V Nuclease, the wild-type MAD7 CRISPR Type-V nuclease, licensed from Inscripta, at Research Grade, with GMP to follow.   Aldevron’s launch at Advanced Therapies Week of Eureca-V Nuclease expands the toolkit of available CRISPR nucleases for therapeutic, diagnostic, and agricultural […]

January 20, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Jan 2023

The magical microbiome

By Brittany Niccum and Han Wei Now that we are past the holiday season and time when we might have over-indulged on rich foods, many of us are seeing how we can help our bodies bounce back. Science can help. Every environment – organic or inorganic – has a myriad of microorganisms living on the […]

January 20, 2023 - 6 minutesmins - By External Contributor

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News and Trends 20 Jan 2023

New drug could replace current standard for treating brain cancer

Glioblastoma (GBM) is a WHO grade IV brain tumor with dismal prognosis. Although post-surgical radiation chemotherapy combined with temozolomide is the standard line of treatment, GBM cells surviving radiotherapy contribute to tumor progression and recurrence even more aggressively. Researchers have now unveiled the mechanism of radioresistance in glioblastoma cells, identifying therapeutic targets to overcome radioresistance. […]

January 20, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Jan 2023

DeuterOncology closes financing round to start lung cancer study

DeuterOncology, a clinical-stage drug development company, has closed €5.65 million ($6.1 million) series A financing, to start the phase I clinical study for its lead product DO-2, an improved MET kinase inhibitor currently being developed as a potential best-in-class targeted therapy for lung cancer. The financing included participation from historical investor Newton Biocapital and new […]

January 20, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Jan 2023

Brenus Pharma and InSphero bag €1.5M for next-generation cancer cell immunotherapy

Brenus Pharma and InSphero AG have received a €1.5 million grant for the collaborative project “STC-1010: A First-in-Class Allogeneic Cell Vaccine Against Cancer,” which aims to use 3D cell culture to develop a novel cell immunotherapy for colorectal cancer. Funding was provided by the Eurostars fund, a support mechanism for small and medium-sized enterprises under […]

January 20, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Milestone for gene-edited therapy for sickle cell disease

Alcohol-related liver disease: mechanism could lead to new therapies

First leukemia patient dosed with SMART101

Ubiquigent and University of Glasgow to collaborate on drug discovery

Funding for university to develop new motor neuron disease therapies

CytoReason expands deal with Sanofi to look at IBD

Beyond Biotech podcast 30: Advanced Therapies Congress, BioAlps, Bionter, C2i Genomics

Aldevron launches type-V CRISPR Nuclease

The magical microbiome

New drug could replace current standard for treating brain cancer

DeuterOncology closes financing round to start lung cancer study

Brenus Pharma and InSphero bag €1.5M for next-generation cancer cell immunotherapy

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