10x Genomics has acquired its first startup since coming out of stealth just over three years ago—the epigenetics startup Epinomics—and plans to add its…
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Medaka embryo, in which the Rx2 gene – a gene critical for eye development – was edited with a repair copy. This copy contains the sequence for a green…
Sophiris Bio has completed its investigation into the death of a patient that halted additional dosing in a trial of its lead candidate topsalysin two months…
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Researchers from the University of Sydney, CSIRO, the United Kingdom’s John Innes Centre, Limagrain…
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A phase 1b trial has linked Xenon’s epilepsy candidate XEN1101 to statistically significant declines in measures of corticospinal and cortical excitability.…
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