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Amyris | October 06, 2021

Amyris, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMRS), a leading synthetic biotechnology company active in the Clean Health and Beauty markets through its consumer brands, and a top supplier of sustainable and natural ingredients, today announced that Amyris has licensed the Onyx genome engineering platform from Inscripta, a leading gene editing technology company. Amyris and Inscripta will also explore joint research and development opportunities to expand the Onyx platform functionality. Amyris' prod...

FierceBiotech | February 07, 2020

After getting off a $66 million series B round in September last year, hereditary angioedema (HAE) specialist Pharvaris has taken on a seasoned HAE developer to help lead its pipeline. The startup has nabbed former Takeda/Shire exec Peng Lu, M.D., Ph.D., as its chief medical officer; Lu comes from Shire after it has been subsumed into Japanese Big Pharma Takeda and follows a whole host of other execs who have hit the exit amid the merger. At Shire, she led the team that finished up the phase 3 p...

LuminUltra | September 14, 2020

Canada-based biotechnology front-runner LuminUltra announced today that it has submitted its GeneCount® COVID-19 RT-qPCR Assay Kit (COVID-19 Assay) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) and to Health Canada for an Interim Order (IO). With authorization to use this key testing component, LuminUltra, a leader in field-based molecular diagnostic testing for over 20 years, will provide a complete clinical COVID-19 testing solution that can be custom...

FierceBiotech | February 11, 2020

The FDA has placed a clinical hold on LogicBio Therapeutics’ planned genome editing trial. LogicBio wants to trial the therapy in methylmalonic acidemia (MMA) patients aged two years and up but has run into resistance at the FDA. Details of the nature of the regulatory resistance and how soon it is likely to be resolved are scarce. LogicBio provided scant information in its statement to disclose the FDA clinical hold. According to analysts at Jefferies who spoke to management at LogicBio, ...