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J&J does Alzheimer’s gene therapy deal, along with 14 other new collaborations – Endpoints News

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2018-01-05 NEWS

Endpoints News

J&J does Alzheimer’s gene therapy deal, along with 14 other new collaborations
Endpoints News
Johnson & Johnson has inked a research deal with University of Pennsylvania to work on gene therapy for Alzheimer’s. The partnership leverages the university’s adeno-associated viruses and J&J’s anti-Alzheimer’s antibodies in hopes to penetrate the

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Scientific American

Can Gene Editing Save the World’s Chocolate?
Scientific American
Fungi and viruses are poised to doom chocolate, which is why scientists are racing to save cacao—the tree that sprouts the colorful, football-size pods containing beans used to make chocolate—with the gene-editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9, according
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Can Gene Editing Prevent Chocolate Extinction?BOSS Magazine
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TrueBlueTribune

Contrasting Editas Medicine (EDIT) & OptiNose (OPTN)
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It is developing a genome editing platform based on clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) technology. CRISPR uses a protein-ribonucleic acid (RNA) complex composed of an enzyme, including either CRISPR associated protein 9
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Researchers discover genetic mechanism for resistance to immunotherapy drugs
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An urgent question for cancer scientists is why immunotherapy achieves dramatic results in some cases but doesn’t help most patients. Now, two research groups from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have independently discovered a genetic mechanism in cancer

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