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Eloxx Pharmaceuticals to Report Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results and Provide Business Update on November 5, 2020

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Premature stop codons are point mutations that disrupt protein synthesis from messenger RNA. As a consequence, patients with premature stop codon diseases have reduced or eliminated protein production from the mutation bearing allele accounting for some of the most severe phenotypes in these genetic diseases.

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Article FDA Thank You Draft guidance on potency assays for CGT products garners extensive stakeholder input

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Cell-based assays , while more complex to develop and use, offer another option for characterizing product activity at a slightly higher level, allowing sponsors to measure the further downstream effects of products (e.g., morphological cell changes or alterations in protein production or expression).

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Codon Digest: Bacteria Resist Every Virus

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Peroxisomal metabolic coupling improves fatty alcohol production from sole methanol in yeast. Optogenetic closed-loop feedback control of the unfolded protein response optimizes protein production. Metabolic Engineering. Assembly of metabolons in yeast using Cas6-mediated RNA scaffolding. ACS Synthetic Biology.

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Beyond Steel Tanks

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Once approved, patent-protected drugs are the highest-margin physical products on the planet—even with the high price of bioreactors. The real cost is clinical development. In 2012, an Israeli company called Protalix gained approval for their plant-based enzyme product for Gaucher’s disease. Why rock the boat?

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Elasmogen announces a panel of novel, potent, anti-COVID-19 therapeutic candidates identified through collaboration with U.S. research partners

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Elasmogen is unique in its capacity to isolate and develop soloMERs, with a multi-layered IP position covering the platform, humanisation, formats, products and process including over 25 patents granted in the US, Europe and other territories.