Regeneron and Intellia Therapeutics to jointly develop CRISPR/Cas9 for gene editing

12 April 2016
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US biotech Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: REGN) and Intellia Therapeutics have signed a licensing and collaboration agreement to advance CRISPR/Cas 9 gene editing technology.

In addition to the discovery, development and commercialization of new therapies, the companies will focus on technology development of the CRISPR/Cas9 platform.

CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is a technology that allows scientists to precisely edit the genes of targeted cells and is considered a powerful tool for creating very specific models of disease for use in drug discovery.

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