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Medical

Kintor Pharma | December 29, 2021

Kintor Pharmaceutical Limited, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing innovative small molecule and biological therapeutics, provided an update on its multi-regional study of proxalutamide for the treatment of COVID-19 infection. Statistical criteria were not met at an interim analysis of the phase III outpatient study, designed for testing efficacy and safety of proxalutamide for treating COVID-19 in non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients. At the interim analysis, 348 patients with mild-...

Industrial Impact

Cellectis Inc. | February 19, 2022

Cellectis, a clinical-stage biotechnology company using its pioneering gene-editing platform to develop life-saving cell and gene therapies, and Calyxt, Inc. , a majority-owned subsidiary of Cellectis S.A., announced the placement to an institutional investor in an underwritten offering of (i) 3,880,000 shares of Calyxt common stock, (ii) pre-funded warrants to purchase up to 3,880,000 shares of its common stock, and (iii) common warrants to purchase up to 7,760,000 shares of its common stock. Read More

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 ...

GEN | April 15, 2020

Researchers in Michigan published a study “Transposable elements contribute to cell and species-specific chromatin looping and gene regulation in mammalian genomes” in Nature Communications that shows that transposable elements play an important role in regulating genetic expression with implications to advance the understanding of genetic evolution, with potential applications in neurodegenerative diseases. Transposable elements move around the cell, and, unlike previously thought, ...