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UC vs. Harvard: Round 2 in CRISPR gene technology fight – Santa Cruz Sentinel

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2018-05-01 NEWS

Scientific American

UC vs. Harvard: Round 2 in CRISPR gene technology fight
Santa Cruz Sentinel
It’s a high stakes showdown over intellectual-property rights between two of the nation’s most prestigious institutions, with perhaps a billion dollars in the balance. While research universities often reach settlements over patent disputes, both sides
All You Need to Know for Round 2 of the CRISPR Patent FightScientific American
UC vs. Harvard: Round 2 in CRISPR fightThe Mercury News
UC fights for CRISPR patent rights against Broad Institute, Harvard …Daily Californian

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Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Superimmune Cell Lines Courtesy of Synthetic Biology
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Early efforts to recode E. coli were described in 2013, when a Science article (“Genomically Recoded Organisms Expand Biological Functions”) appeared describing how 321 instances of a single redundant codon had been removed from the organism’s genome
Genome writing project aims to rally scientists around virus-proofing cellsScience Magazine
Scientists downsize bold plan to make human genome from scratchNature.com
“Project Recode” aims to make human cells invulnerable to infectionMIT Technology Review
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T cell biomarker predicts which CLL patients will respond to CAR T cell therapy
Science Daily
Penn Medicine researchers may have found the reason why some patients with advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) don’t respond to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, and the answer is tied to how primed patients’ immune systems are

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Roche boosts its gene therapy game, expanding partnership with 4D Molecular Therapeutics
Endpoints News
The progress of Spark and its gene therapy hit Luxturna — along with new partnerships forged by its pharma brethren Pfizer and Novartis — likely laid the groundwork for Roche to reconsider its partnership with 4DMT. Roche and 4DMT’s first

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Roche boosts its gene therapy game, expanding partnership with 4D Molecular Therapeutics
Endpoints News
The progress of Spark and its gene therapy hit Luxturna — along with new partnerships forged by its pharma brethren Pfizer and Novartis — likely laid the groundwork for Roche to reconsider its partnership with 4DMT. Roche and 4DMT’s first