If you were at the Advanced Therapies Week in Miami from January 17-20, you learned first-hand about our newest catalog CRISPR protein, Eureca-V™ Nuclease. But what exactly is Eureca-V? In short, the core technology for Eureca-V is the proprietary MAD7® nuclease developed by Inscripta®. Aldevron and Inscripta have partnered to make this protein broadly available to the therapeutic, diagnostic, and agricultural research markets.
Witnessing firsthand the growth of cell and gene therapy to progress more programs to the bedside is an exciting time in the biotechnology industry, particularly with new partnership approaches being developed. I was able to get an overview of one particular partnership during a podcast featuring Tom Foti, VP of Protein Business unit at Aldevron, and Kris Saha, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin.
Collaboration has always been an important part of scientific research and discovery, especially when you combine the resources of strategic partners in science, clinical, engineering and manufacturing.
Historically speaking, drug master files (DMF) have been used in filing Investigational New Drug applications (IND). However, they’ve never been used for CRISPR because that’s a relatively new therapy. With new draft FDA guidance relating to cell therapies using CRISPR, we’re moving further ahead into a new frontier of genomic medicine.
Nate Spangler, Ph.D., Director of Innovation & Strategy at Aldevron discusses the challenges of manufacturing mRNA under the increased demand and helpful strategies to solve them.
Nate was interviewed by Michael Dunnet for TIDES TV.
Justin Byers, Client Relations Senior Manager, GMP Custom Protein Services at Aldevron discusses important considerations for achieving GMP quality protein manufacturing for advanced therapeutics and vaccines.
He was interviewed by Michael Dunnet for TIDES TV.
Every year, an estimated 300,000 children are born globally with a severe form of sickle cell disease. This is a genetic disease that causes red blood cells to be a sickle shape, leading to episodes of pain and anaemia, along with the potential of stroke or kidney damage.
At the University of Wisconsin - Madison, one focus of our group is understanding and optimizing CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing for therapeutic and disease modeling applications. To conduct our research, we need reliable, consistent and highly efficient Cas9 protein.
Model system for Cas9 gene editing
To perform targeted gene editing, the Cas9 protein, which cuts the genome, and a guide RNA (gRNA) that encodes where in the genome to cut, need to be complexed together into a ribonuclear protein (RNP) complex and transfected to cells to reach the nucleus. Once the DNA is cut, imprecise DNA repair may cause disruption at the cut site, which can result in knock out of a gene.
