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Bluebird won't play off Vertex in deciding price for its lovo-cel gene therapy, exec says

Fierce Pharma

Vertex and CRISPR Therapeutics are up first with a Dec. | But on Tuesday bluebird said that Vertex’s price tag will not factor into how the Massachusetts company will price its treatment. Two long-awaited treatments for sickle cell disease (SCD) are on the docket for FDA decisions next month.

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Upcoming sickle cell gene therapies cost effective at $2 million, says ICER

Pharmaceutical Technology

Released on April 12, the report focuses on bluebird bio’s lovotibeglogene autotemcel and Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics’ exagamglogene autotemcel or exa-cel and their potential use in treating sickle cell disease. If approved, exa-cel would be the first FDA-approved gene therapy based on CRISPR editing.

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Q&A: A decade on, what’s next for CAR-T therapies?

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But access to these treatments continues to remain limited due to high price tags and variable availability across regions. This includes the first potential approval of a CRISPR-based gene therapy called exa-cel , which is developed by CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals. There has been extremely rapid progress.

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Putting complex medicines under the microscope

European Pharmaceutical Review

Figure 2 : Super-resolution imaging of CRISPR/Cas9 reporter cell lines enables visualisation of cellular uptake of complex medicines. BT-474 cell line was gene-edited to incorporate a green fluorescent protein (GFP) tag into late endosomes/lysosomes (green). Figure 2 ). During her PhD at St.