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AstraZeneca a tricky takeover target after big cancer drug blow – Reuters

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2017-08-01 NEWS

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AstraZeneca a tricky takeover target after big cancer drug blow
Reuters
Two other new cancer medicines, Tagrisso and Lynparza, are doing well, while its troubled immunotherapy drug Imfinzi should still be a significant seller for non-metastatic lung cancer, despite the big hit to the firm’s chances in advanced disease.
BMS takes AstraZeneca to court over cancer treatmentLife Sciences Intellectual Property Review (subscription)

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Isogenica Announces New Licence Agreement with Takeda
Business Wire (press release)
Isogenica is a synthetic biology company focusing on the design and build of diverse antibody libraries for use in biopharmaceuticals. Partners can access an advanced camelid single-domain antibody library (llamdA™) and state-of-the-art, fully …

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If you could ‘design’ your own child, would you?
New Zealand Herald
But supporters of synthetic biology talk up huge potential long-term benefits. We could, they claim, potentially edit genes and build new ones to eradicate all hereditary diseases. With genetic alterations, we might be able to withstand anthrax attacks …

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If you could ‘design’ your own child, would you?
New Zealand Herald
But supporters of synthetic biology talk up huge potential long-term benefits. We could, they claim, potentially edit genes and build new ones to eradicate all hereditary diseases. With genetic alterations, we might be able to withstand anthrax attacks …

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2017-08-01 NEWS

UC Berkeley

How Powerful is CRISPR?
Newswise (press release)
Newswise — “Good morning, doctor, I am here for my gene editing appointment.” In the future, could this be a greeting heard in physician offices around the world? With the introduction of CRISPR technology, genetic material can now be more easily and …
Aug. 16-17 CRISPRcon to focus on societal issues of gene editingUC Berkeley

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