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Feb 22, 2023 • 5 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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1/@LineageCell announced it entered an exclusive option & license agreement with $ERNA for the development of novel B2M deficient induced pluripotent #stem #cell #iPSC by using Eterna’s #GeneEditing technology thus developing therapies for #CNS diseases. #BioTech #CRISPR $LCTX Lineage Cell Therapeutics, ...
2/The new cell lines - to be developed by $ERNA, will support the creation of additional product candidates at $LCTX and specifically for the treatment of central #nervoussystem #CNS disorders & other #neurology targets via Eterna’s IP #CRISPR collaboration with @FactorBio The new cell lines to be de...
3/This agreement will also allow @LineageCell to enter the #CRISPR field and will provide $LCTX an option to obtain an exclusive license to utilize & sublicense $ERNA novel #GeneEditing cell lines for #preclinical, #clinical, & commercial purposes in the field of CNS diseases. This agreement will also al...
4/A feature of the starting #cell line is the targeted deletion of the B2M gene, which is designed to reduce the immunogenicity of product candidates derived from the lines by inhibiting rejection by CD8+ T cells. 4/A feature of the starting...
5/@LineageCell & $ERNA intend to initiate additional planned #GeneEditing platforms that may further differentiate the cell line from others currently in use by competitors. Financial terms of the collaboration between $LCTX & $ERNA were not disclosed.

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Jan 9
1/Here’s an excellent article - published in the recent @WIRED issue, by Nobel prize winner Jennifer Doudna about how AI & machine learning are amplifying the impact of CRISPR & Gene editing in all walks of life - medicine, agriculture, climate change & research landscape.🧵👇 Here’s an excellent article - published in the recent WIRED issue, by Nobel prize winner Jennifer Doudna about how AI and machine learning are amplifying the impact of CRISPR and Gene editing in all walks of life - medicine, agriculture, climate change and research landscape.
2/Jennifer Doudna is an American biochemist who discovered CRISPR Cas9 as a Gene Editing tool & had received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Emmanuelle Charpentier for their discovery. She also founded several BioTech companies like $NTLA, $CRBU, Scribe, Mammoth & others. Jennifer Doudna is an American biochemist who discovered CRISPR Cas9 as a Gene Editing tool & had received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Emmanuelle Charpentier for their discovery. She also founded several BioTech companies like Intellia therapeutics, Caribou Biosciences, Scribe therapeutics, Mammoth biosciences and others.
3/According to Jennifer Doudna - 2025 will be a pivotal year in which the ever growing use of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning will amplify the effects and reach of CRISPR and Gene Editing in many aspects of our lives - curative medicines, agriculture & lab research. According to Jennifer Doudna - 2025 will be a pivotal year in which the ever growing use of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning will amplify the effects and reach of CRISPR and Gene Editing in many aspects of our lives - curative medicines, agriculture and lab research.
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1/🚨WOW! $SANA announced initial positive results from its first-in-human study of UP421 - an allogeneic primary islet Cell Therapy engineered with Sana’s proprietary hypoimmune (HIP) technology for patients with type 1 Diabetes, without the use of any immunosuppression $XBI 🧵👇Sana Biotechnology - a company focused on changing the possible for patients through engineered cells, today announced initial results from an investigator-sponsored, first-in-human study transplanting UP421, an allogeneic primary islet cell therapy engineered with Sana’s hypoimmune (HIP) technology, into a patient with type 1 diabetes without the use of any immunosuppression.
2/Type 1 diabetes is a chronic (life-long) autoimmune disease that prevents the patient’s pancreas from making Insulin - an important hormone that regulates the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood. Type 1 diabetes affects both children and adults & requires daily management with insulin injections and blood sugar monitoring.
3/Type 1 Diabetes affects roughly 8.4M people worldwide. The number of patients is constantly rising and the prevalence of type 1 diabetes is expected to double over the next decade. Interestingly enough almost 80% of T1D patients are from high-income countries with insurance. Image
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Aug 18, 2024
1/This great @WSJ’s 📊 shows how after spending tens of billions of dollars for a single BioTech company, big Pharma moguls such as $ABBV, $AZN, $BMY, $AMGN, $PFE & $VRTX have all shifted to acquiring smaller targets of >$5B - for both regulatory & financials reasons. $XBI 🧵👇 After shelling out tens of billions of dollars for single biotech companies, pharma- ceutical giants such as AbbVie, AstraZeneca and Merck have shifted to smaller targets cost- ing $5 billion or less. Many of the companies getting taken out are private. The reason, according to ex- ecutives, bankers and lawyers: Smaller deals are just easier to do in the current regulatory environment, and the sector is looking pretty picked over.
2/All 17 deals made by big Pharma during the first 6 months of ‘24 were $5B or less. During the same period last year, big Pharma made 9 deals, including 2 that were $10B or more. 9 of the 17 deals were for privately held companies, compared to 1 during the same period in 2023. All 17 deals announced by big pharmaceutical companies during the first six months of the year were valued at 5 billion dollars or less, according to re- search firm DealForma. During the same period last year, big drugmakers agreed to nine deals, including two that were 10 billion dollars or larger. Nine of the 17 deals were for privately held companies, compared with one during the same period last year, DealForma said.
3/Last year’s big acquisitions were led by @pfizer’s $43B purchase of cancer biotech $SGEN ❤️👇. By contrast & to demonstrate how things have changed, the biggest deal so far in 2024 was @VertexPharma $4.9B purchase of Alpine Immune Sciences & its experimental kidney drug. $PFE
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The biggest problem of Gene Editing & Gene therapy is delivery - how to deliver a genetic payload to the exact desired location. Here’s a great Infograph which shows which BioTech companies use Viral delivery methods (AAVs, LVs) compared to non-viral platforms (NLPs). $XBI The biggest problem of Gene Editing & Gene therapy is delivery - how to deliver the genetic payload to the exact desired location. Here is a great Infograph which shows which BioTech companies use Viral (AAVs) delivery methods compared to non-viral platforms (NLPs).
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Jul 9, 2024
1/@nvelop_tx has presented its proprietary delivery system - DLVR-M, which has successfully demonstrated improved delivery of CRISPR, base editing & prime editing platforms to different human cell types. DLVR-M could be the key in overcoming the obstacle of CRISPR delivery. $XBI nvelop therapeutics has presented its proprietary delivery system - DLVR-M, which has successfully demonstrated improved delivery of CRISPR, base editing & prime editing platforms to different human cell types. DLVR-M could be the key in overcoming the obstacle of CRISPR delivery
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1/WOW! hC Bioscience announces its first ever tRNA-based program for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). hC is developing anticodon engineered tRNAs as a potential treatment for DMD patients with shortened & nonfunctional dystrophin due to premature termination codons (PTCs). $XBI WOW! hC Bioscience announces its first ever tRNA-based program for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). hC is developing anticodon engineered tRNAs as a potential treatment for DMD patients with shortened & nonfunctional dystrophin due to premature termination codons (PTCs).
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