The 18 signatories emphasized that the moratorium wouldn't constitute a ban or include gene editing for research or treatment of diseases, but called on nations to develop a framework to govern the practice.
These two announcements come after Deborah DiSanzo left her role as IBM Watson Health general manager last year.
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In a deal worth up to $25 million for ViaCyte, the companies will work together to create allogeneic stem cell therapies to treat the disease.
In the ongoing CRISPR Cas9 gene-editing technology, the Broad Institute suffered a major blow in Europe with each side exploiting the idiosyncrasies of national patent laws in Europe and in the U.S.
The Broad Institute plans to develop and roll out GATK4, the next generation version of Genome Analysis Toolkit. The new service will include cancer, structural variation, copy number variation and related functionality.
Transposagen, a Kentucky biotech that develops research tools and animal models for drug discovery, will add CRISPR technology to its existing suite of gene editing tools.
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Former Biogen R&D chief Doug Williams is launching a biotech startup called Codiak BioSciences with $80 million. It is developing exosomes as a new diagnostic and therapeutic tool, beginning with pancreatic cancer.