Precision BioSciences, Inc. Common Stock
Precision BioSciences, Inc., a clinical stage gene editing company, develops in vivo gene editing therapies for gene edits, including gene insertion, excision, and elimination in the United States. The company offers ARCUS, a genome editing platform for DNA genome insertion, removal, and repair. It also provides PBGENE-HBV for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) to eliminate covalently closed circular DNA with direct cuts and edits, as well as to inactivate integrated HBV DNA with the goal of long-lasting reductions in hepatitis B surface antigen; and PBGENE-3243 for the treatment of m.3243 associated mitochondrial myopathy. In addition, the company develops PBGENE-NVS (insertion) for sickle cell and beta thalassemia diseases; PBGENE-DMD (excision) for duchenne muscular dystrophy; PBGENE-LIVER (insertion), a liver directed target; PBGENE-CNS (excision), a central nervous system directed target; and iECURE-OTC (insertion) for ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency. It has collaboration agreements with Novartis Pharma AG to discover and develop in vivo gene editing products; TG Cell Therapy, Inc. to develop, manufacture, and commercialize azer-cel for autoimmune diseases and other indications outside of cancer; and iECURE, Inc. to develop ARCUS-based gene-insertion therapies. Precision BioSciences, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.
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Twist Bioscience Corporation manufactures and sells synthetic DNA-based products. The company offers synthetic genes and gene fragments used in product development for therapeutics, diagnostics, chemicals/materials, food/agriculture, data storage, and various applications within academic research by biotech, pharma, industrial chemical, and agricultural companies, as well as academic labs; Oligo pools used in targeted NGS, CRISPR gene editing, mutagenesis experiments, DNA origami, DNA computing, data storage in DNA, and other applications; and immunoglobulin G proteins for customers focused on the pursuit of drug discovery and development. It also provides NGS tools comprising library preparation kits, human exome kits, and fixed and custom panels, as well as alliance panels used within diagnostic tests for various indications, population genetics research and biomarker discovery, translational research, microbiology, and applied markets research; and methylation detection kits for cancer, and rare and inherited disease study, as well as fast hybridization and full RNA sequencing workflow solution. In addition, it offers synthetic SARS-CoV-2 RNA reference sequences as positive controls to develop both NGS and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assays; synthetic monkeypox controls; and various respiratory viral controls, including for influenzas, respiratory syncytial virus, rhinoviruses, SARS, MERS, and coronaviruses. Further, it offers SARS-CoV-2 Research Panels, such as the Twist Respiratory Virus Panel and the Pan-Viral Research Panel, for the detection of disease in a research setting; precision DNA libraries for antibody engineering, affinity maturation, and humanization; and antibody optimization solution to enable simultaneous optimization of multiple characteristics of a given antibody. The company has a strategic collaboration with bitBiome Inc. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.
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