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Epigenetic editing: the next generation of genetic medicine

Drug Target Review

The epigenome (meaning ‘above the genome’) is a system of reversible marks regulating how the DNA is read, translated and used. The molecular machinery of the epigenetic system can selectively package specific regions of DNA away, making them inaccessible and less active. The clinic is the natural next step for epigenetic editing.

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Article EMA Thank You What we expect European regulators to do in June 2024

Agency IQ

What we expect European regulators to do in June 2024 In this recurring feature, AgencyIQ, through public data and previous analysis, determines what European medicine and device regulators will likely do in the month ahead, including key deadlines, meetings, events, planned regulations, comment periods, and more.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

Regulators traditionally want to see a single, stable, well-characterized drug before giving the green light for it to be tested in a clinical trial, not dozens of different viruses; let alone ones that are best found in unappealing places like sewage , hospital waste, or bird poop. aeruginosa, S. aureus, and K. pneumoniae.

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Why Nothing Can Grow on Mars*

Codon

Two years ago, a friend took me out to coffee in Boston and said, “I think we can engineer an organism to terraform Mars.” The feat could be achieved with something as direct as engineering a microbe that can survive on the Martian surface, and then letting it grow and spread over the planet. (* = probably.)

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Mastering Responses to FDA 510(k) AI Letters: A Strategic Approach

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert — It takes a significant amount of time, cost, and effort to prepare a premarket notification 510(k) submission. Team meetings with subject matter experts can be scheduled to discuss response strategies for deficiencies that require extensive clinical, scientific, or engineering input.

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Beyond Steel Tanks

Codon

In the first real test of delivering a complex biomolecule to over a billion people, little has changed from how Genentech first approached manufacturing in the 1980s; Cells are genetically engineered and then grown in steel tanks. In response to this hysteria, regulation was aggressively tightened. Why rock the boat?

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Commercial interests contribute to drug use and addiction

National Institute on Drug Abuse: Nora's Blog

Great progress has been made in reducing smoking in the United States, which has led to major improvements in health, but the rapidly growing vaping industry, if not properly regulated, could jeopardize this. Adolescents exposed to cannabis marketing have greater odds of using the drug.

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