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Industrial Impact

PRnewswire | July 05, 2023

Modern Meadow, a purpose-driven biotechnology company, is proud to announce its strategic partnership with BASF, a leading global chemical company, to embark on a collaboration to revolutionize the material industry. This strategic collaboration will bring together the cutting-edge biofabrication expertise of Modern Meadow with BASF's renowned Ultramid® Ccycled® material, paving the way for the creation of a modern, sustainable, and animal-free material of the future. ...

Genetic Literacy Project | January 14, 2020

Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College published a new study (“Anti-Phospho-Tau Gene Therapy for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy”) in Human Gene Therapy that shows the feasibility of using gene therapy to treat the progressive neurodegenerative disorder chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The study demonstrated the effectiveness of direct delivery of gene therapy into the brain of a mouse model of CTE....

Cell and Gene Therapy

PRNewswire | June 12, 2023

BioCentriq®, a strategic CDMO specializing in cell therapy announced that it has expanded its partnership with Kytopen, a Cambridge based startup spun out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The partnership was originally announced in March of 2021. In the initial phase of the collaboration, the Kytopen and BioCentriq teams worked together to test transfection of T-cells using Kytopen's Flowfect® technology and the potential impact to both autologous and ...

Industrial Impact

Dewpoint Therapeutics | August 18, 2022

A new perspective published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery examines the potential of biomolecular condensates to transform drug discovery. Condensates are membrane-less organelles that form dynamically throughout the cell via a process called phase separation. Over the last decade scientists have recognized the role of biomolecular condensates in cellular organization and disease, marking one of the most revolutionary areas of biology. In "Modulating biomolecular condensate...