CRISPR technique

May 14, 2024

Takeda and AC Immune Ink Exclusive Deal for Active Immunotherapy in Alzheimer’s, Focusing on Amyloid Beta Takeda and AC Immune SA have unveiled an exclusive global option and licensing pact concerning AC Immune’s active immunotherapies directed at harmful variants of amyloid beta (Abeta), notably ACI-24.060, int...

Dec 15, 2023

History has been created as the world captures the significance of the FDA’s approval of Casgevy (exa-cel), a collaboration between Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, for the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD). This groundbreaking therapy represents a long-awaited potential cure for the debilitatin...

Jun 10, 2022

CRISPR technology or CRISPR/Cas9 technology is a genome-editing tool derived from the bacterial defense system against viruses and plasmids. The system comprises the Cas9 nuclease enzyme to create site-directed dsDNA (double-stranded DNA) break and a guide RNA, which is a predesigned 20 bp long RNA sequence within ...

Jan 02, 2018

British scientists looking forward to treat Alzheimer’s disease through diabetes drug A group of British scientists are looking for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease in an unlikely source i.e. a drug used for treating Type 2 Diabetes. The team, from Lancaster University, has reported that an experimental three-p...