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Syncona Leads $80 Million Round for Gene Therapy Firm Autolus – New York Times

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2017-09-26 NEWS

Syncona Leads $80 Million Round for Gene Therapy Firm Autolus
New York Times
LONDON — Syncona has led a $80 million investment in Autolus, a company developing gene therapies to treat cancer, the healthcare investment group said on Tuesday. Gene-modifying immunotherapy is a new type of cancer treatment that harnesses the …

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2017-09-26 NEWS

FierceBiotech

Eligo raises $20M to take bacteria-killing CRISPR drug into clinic
FierceBiotech
The potential for CRISPR/Cas9 to enable targeted attacks on bacteria—sniper shots compared to antibiotic WMDs—has raised hopes the gene editing technology can address the antibiotic crisis. It has also attracted the attention of biotechs including
French Biotech Gets $20M to Treat the Microbiome with CRISPR NanobotsLabiotech.eu (blog)
Khosla Ventures makes first investment in France, leads $18 million round in Eligo BioscienceVentureBeat
Eligo Bioscience Secures $20 Million Series A from Khosla Ventures and Seventure to Bring Precision Medicine to the …PR Newswire (press release)

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2017-09-26 NEWS

The Guardian

Immunotherapy has changed cancer medicine. But it’s no miracle cure
The Guardian
She accepts my lengthy explanation but the next patient refuses, insisting that I either prescribe him immunotherapy or find someone that will. His liver is failing and his blood sugars are wildly abnormal – even if there were a trial available, he

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2017-09-26 NEWS

Vivet’s First Gene Therapy Product, VTX 801 for Wilson’s Disease, Receives European and US Orphan Drug Designation
Business Wire (press release)
PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vivet Therapeutics, announced today that both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Commission (EC) have granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) for Vivet’s lead gene therapy product, VTX-801, for the …

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2017-09-26 NEWS

The Business of Fashion

BoF Exclusive | With Lab-Grown Leather, Modern Meadow Is Engineering a Fashion Revolution
The Business of Fashion
“If we continue at the current pace, in principle in ten years it will be possible to write genetic code from scratch in quantities large enough to write entire synthetic genomes.” “Biology has undergone a huge revolution,” explains Forgacs. “Digital

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2017-09-26 NEWS

WOAI

The future of stem cell therapy in Texas
WOAI
News 4 San Antonio also reached out to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, in a statement , a spokesperson says, “Research of adult stem cells at UT Health San Antonio is preclinical (not in humans), and the institution is

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2017-09-26 NEWS

WCVB Boston

Cancer treatment tested in Boston under review by the FDA
WCVB Boston
“I think we’re on the cusp of something revolutionary,” Johnson said. “You don’t want to throw that “cure” word out, but really feel like that’s a distinct possibility, so much so that we actually didn’t refer these patients for any other therapy after

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