To read the full story, subscribe or sign in.

Novartis, Atlas fund CRISPR-Cas9 venture Intellia in $15M series A

Nov. 19, 2014

Intellia Therapeutics Inc., a new company formed to develop CRISPR-Cas9 therapeutics for gene editing and repair, closed a $15 million series A round led by Atlas Venture and Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.

BioWorld

Today's news in brief

BioWorld

IL-22 and TL1A, a robust couple for diagnosing hidradenitis suppurativa

BioWorld Science

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with strong association with psoriasis and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). While some...

Illustration of head with maze that is missing parts

Inhibiting the NLRP3 inflammasome for cognitive impairment, stroke

BioWorld Science

Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) and cerebral small vessel disease are among the leading causes of dementia, where inflammation is known to play...

New mechanism of action identified for QC-6352

BioWorld Science

QC-6352 is a small molecule developed to inhibit the histone demethylase 4 (KDM4) that has shown potent antitumoral activity and which has a derivative named...

VST Bio’s VB-001 is neuroprotector after stroke

BioWorld Science

At the recent International Stroke Conference, researchers from VST Bio Corp. and Yale University presented preclinical data regarding VB-001, a monoclonal...