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Juno, Editas Form Cell Therapy Pact
by Lisa M. Jarvis
June 1, 2015
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 93, Issue 22
In a pact that combines two hot technologies, the T-cell-based therapies developer Juno Therapeutics will pay $25 million to Editas Medicine to use its CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing capabilities. Editas also will get $22 million in R&D support over the next five years. Juno genetically engineers a cancer patient’s T cells to detect and kill diseased cells. Gene-editing technology from Editas could help broaden the effectiveness of the engineered T cells beyond certain blood cancers to solid tumors.
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