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Vertex signs licence deal with CRISPR Therapeutics for diabetes therapies

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Vertex Pharmaceuticals has signed a new non-exclusive licensing agreement with CRISPR Therapeutics to expedite the development of its hypoimmune cell therapies to treat type 1 diabetes (T1D). It originated under the partnership of CRISPR Therapeutics and ViaCyte. Topic sponsors are not involved in the creation of editorial content.

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Editas grabs orphan drug status for sickle cell disease CRISPR therapy

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EDIT-301 is made of patient-derived CD34+ haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells, which are edited using CRISPR at the gamma globin gene (HBG1 and HBG2) promoter sites using a proprietary engineered AsCas12a nuclease, per the company’s website. Topic sponsors are not involved in the creation of editorial content.

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Scribe and Sanofi partner to develop cell therapies for cancer

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Scribe Therapeutics and Sanofi have signed a strategic partnership to expedite the development of breakthrough clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based cell therapies for cancer. Topic sponsors are not involved in the creation of editorial content.

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BrightPath and Artisan Bio sign agreement to expedite cell therapies

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BrightPath will obtain non-exclusive rights to the STAR-CRISPR editing platform of Artisan Bio for accelerating the development of BrightPath’s iNKT cells. Topic sponsors are not involved in the creation of editorial content. Cell & Gene Therapy coverage on Pharmaceutical Technology is supported by Cytiva.

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Vertex signs agreement to acquire ViaCyte for $320m

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Furthermore, through the takeover, Vertex will obtain access to new hypoimmune stem cell assets under the ViaCyte-CRISPR Therapeutics partnership. Topic sponsors are not involved in the creation of editorial content. Cell & Gene Therapy coverage on Pharmaceutical Technology is supported by Cytiva.

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Bluebird moves forward in sickle cell arena with lovo-cel BLA

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The BLA filing brings bluebird closer to its competitors CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals , which finished a rolling BLA for their CRISPR-based gene therapy exa-cel for the same condition earlier this month. Topic sponsors are not involved in the creation of editorial content.

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Upcoming sickle cell gene therapies cost effective at $2 million, says ICER

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Released on April 12, the report focuses on bluebird bio’s lovotibeglogene autotemcel and Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics’ exagamglogene autotemcel or exa-cel and their potential use in treating sickle cell disease. If approved, exa-cel would be the first FDA-approved gene therapy based on CRISPR editing.

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