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Cell and Gene Therapy

Tevogen Bio | January 13, 2022

Tevogen Bio, a clinical stage biotechnology company specializing in cell and gene therapies in oncology and viral infections, announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a new patent for the method of preparing COVID-19 peptide specific cytotoxic T cells for the treatment of COVID-19 infection. The patent further reinforces the biotech pioneer’s expanding IP portfolio. “Omicron’s extensive mutations and its subsequent abi...

Medical

Invest Ontario | April 01, 2022

Invest Ontario is supporting OmniaBio Inc. in launching a new biomanufacturing facility that will catalyze Ontario life sciences jobs and innovation while advancing pioneering medicine with the potential to cure, not just treat, many forms of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, Parkinson's and diabetes. OmniaBio, a Canadian cell and gene therapy contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), will be the anchor tenant in a new biomanufacturing campus being built in Ha...

The World News Monitor | April 08, 2020

• 3 Blue-Chip Biotech Stocks Hitting New Highs. A basket of biotech stocks have surged to new highs in recent weeks, lifting the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology Index Fund ETF (IBB) within 15 points of 2019 resistance.The stock posted an all-time high at $128 in Tuesday’s session, lifting above 2019 resistance at $122. Price action into the second half of 2019 carved a long series of lower highs and lower lows, dropping the stock to a six-year low....

Cell and Gene Therapy, Industrial Impact

Aldevron | January 20, 2023

Aldevron®, a worldwide leader in the custom development and production of plasmid DNA, RNA, and proteins for the biotech sector, recently announced the launch of Eureca-V™ nuclease. Eureca-V™, licensed from Inscripta®, is the wild-type MAD7® CRISPR Type-V nuclease at research grade, with GMP to follow. The launch of Aldevron's Eureca-V nuclease at advanced therapies week expands the toolkit of accessible CRISPR nucleases for therapeutic, di...