CRISPR Therapeutics
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Shares of CRISPR Therapeutics (-8 percent), Editas Medicines (-5 percent) and Intellia Therapeutics (-6.7 percent) are all plunging following the release of a report that claimed CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing may cause some dangerous side effects.
Now, two studies published in Nature Medicine suggest that CRISPR may lead to cancer unintentionally.
Shares of CRISPR Therapeutics plunged dramatically Wednesday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration placed a clinical hold on a planned sickle cell disease treatment the company was in the process of developing with Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
All that is lacking from the likely drama surrounding patent battles over CRISPR technology in the U.S. Court of Appeals today is Michael Buffer’s cry of “Let’s get ready to rumble.”
Mammoth Biosciences, based in San Francisco, has officially launched to develop CRISPR technology for clinical diagnostics.
Bluebird bio announced interim data from two different two-year clinical trials of LentiGlobin gene therapy for transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia (TDT).
The plan is to treat patients with beta thalassemia, a blood disorder that decreases the production of hemoglobin, the iron-containing protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen.
A look at three small biotech companies that appear to be leading the CRISPR race.
Celgene has been unloading some of its shares in two of its investments, CRISPR Therapeutics and Atara Biotherapeutics.
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