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Sweden Launches Initiative to Establish Center for Cell and Gene Therapy Research – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

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2017-06-22 NEWS

Sweden Launches Initiative to Establish Center for Cell and Gene Therapy Research
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Swedish regenerative medicine firm Xintela, has been appointed a partner in the 6-year project to establish the CAMP cell and gene therapy research centre, with SEK 48 million ($5.5 million) in funding from the country’s innovation agency and research …

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Repare Raises $68M in Series A to Develop CRISPR-Based Synthetic Lethality Platform
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Versant Venture and MPM Capital co-led a $68-million Series A fundraising round to establish Repare Therapeutics, a Canada-based cancer drug company exploiting a high-throughput, CRISPR-based screening platform to identify synthetic lethality cancer …
Celgene-backed cancer biotech Repare emerges from stealth with $68MFierceBiotech
Repare Nabs $68M To Find Synthetic Lethal Cancer Targets Beyond PARPXconomy
Repare Therapeutics Raises US$68 Million Series ABusiness Wire (press release)

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Reversing Huntington’s? Brain shown to heal itself after disease …
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The potential of genome-editing techniques, such as CRISPR/Cas9, to alleviate disease burden has ignited the imagination for thousands of researchers looki.

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BRIEF-Xintela participates in gov. funded initiative to form cell, gene therapy research center
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BRIEF-Xintela participates in gov. funded initiative to form cell, gene therapy research center
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Reuters is the news and media division of Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters is the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news …

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BRIEF-Xintela participates in gov. funded initiative to form cell, gene therapy research center
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Reuters is the news and media division of Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters is the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news …

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CRISPR Could Point to a Cure For Huntington’s Disease, Suggests New Study
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If you’re completely new to CRISPR, or clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, it enables scientists to “cut and paste” DNA data with great accuracy. Cas9 refers to one particular way of using CRISPR that’s currently being explored.
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CRISPR Could Point to a Cure For Huntington’s Disease, Suggests New Study
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We’ve seen how CRISPR/Cas9 can be used to tackle HIV and cancer, and now the revolutionary gene editing technique has Huntington’s disease in its sights, as scientists have used it to reverse signs of the condition in mice. That suggests CRISPR/Cas9 …