Interview with Scribe Therapeutics CEO, Benjamin Oakes

CRISPR Medicine News – California-based gene-editing company Scribe Therapeutics recently unveiled its plans to develop the most advanced platform for breakthrough CRISPR-based genetic medicines.

CRISPR-Based ALS Treatment Being Developed by Scribe and Biogen

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News – Best known for her pioneering work in the discovery of CRISPR, Jennifer Doudna, PhD, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, doesn’t stop or, it seems, even slow down. As of yesterday morning, Doudna can add “accept Nobel Prize” to her to-do list as she, along with Emmanuelle Charpentier, PhD, was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Scribe, Biogen Partner to Develop Gene Therapy for ALS, Other Neurological Diseases

ALS News Today – Founded by the scientists who originally invented CRISPR, Scribe has developed novel, custom-CRISPR tools, using a technology called X-Editing. This advanced gene-editing platform has greater editing activity and higher specificity, meaning that it can edit the target gene with greater precision than other CRISPR tools currently available.

Biogen teams up with gene-editing startup Scribe on ALS programme

pharmaphorum – Scribe Therapeutics, a start-up focusing on gene-editing using CRISPR/Cas9, has burst onto the biotech scene with a $415 million deal with Biogen.

Doudna Spin Out Scribe, Partners with Biogen on CRISPR-Based Treatment for ALS

Clinical OMICs – This week, another Doudna lab spin out, Scribe Therapeutics, came out of stealth mode to announce their plans to build a platform for CRISPR-based genetic medicine with news of a new Biogen collaboration to create therapeutics for genetically-driven ALS.

Scribe Therapeutics, Biogen collaborate to develop CRISPR-based genetic medicines

Pharmaceutical Business Review – Molecular engineering company Scribe Therapeutics has entered into a research collaboration with Biogen for the development of CRISPR-based genetic medicines for neurological diseases.

Scribe Therapeutics emerges with $20M, Biogen pact to clear CRISPR hurdles

FierceBiotech – CRISPR evolved in bacteria as a form of “genetic vandalism,” as George Church, Ph.D., puts it, to fend off pathogens. That means it works very well in bacteria but runs into various obstacles when researchers try to put it to work in humans. Jennifer Doudna’s latest CRISPR company plans to surmount those hurdles with an entirely new CRISPR platform that does not rely on molecules found in nature.

Starting with Biogen deal in ALS, Scribe planning a new chapter in CRISPR story

BioWorld – Scribe Therapeutics Inc., another CRISPR-based genome editing firm out of the Jennifer Doudna stable, launched with $20 million in series A funding and a deal with Biogen Inc. in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which brings in another $15 million up front and up to $400 million in development and commercial milestones.

Scribe: engineering CRISPR’s next generation

CRISPR startup Scribe Therapeutics lands big Biogen deal

San Francisco Business Times – Hoping to take the CRISPR genome-editing tool to the next level of drug development, startup Scribe Therapeutics Inc. said Tuesday that it landed a potential $400 million neurodegenerative disease deal with Biogen Inc.