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(Reuters) - Genetic testing specialist Qiagen (QIA.DE) should have a targeted test for the coronavirus ready this month and is extremely active in providing products to disease control institutions in China, its interim CEO said on Wednesday.

But while Qiagen could boost profits by focusing on products identifying the coronavirus it will continue to bet on growth in its molecular diagnostics business, rather than uncertain one-off gains, CEO Thierry Bernard told a results conference call.

The company headquartered in the Netherlands, which makes diagnostic kits for cancer and tuberculosis as well as products for identifying viruses, reported better than expected quarterly sales and profit growth late on Tuesday.

Qiagen shares were up 5.6% at 1555 GMT on Wednesday, set for their best day in three months.

Bernard said in a results statement on Tuesday that Qiagen had not included global demand for products that can be used to recognise the coronavirus in its 2020 outlook, given the uncertainties around broader business trends in China.

The company is looking into different variants of coronavirus testing solutions, including options using QIAsymphony, NeuMoDx or a syndromic solution, Bernard told the call on Wednesday.

Qiagens increased focus on its molecular diagnostics division is one of the reasons why its adjusted operating margin of 33.5% in the fourth-quarter came in well above its own forecast and the market consensus, analysts have said.

Bernard said the divisions QIAsymphony automation system could become a important source of new growth after its long-established major growth driver, the tuberculosis test QuantiFERON, saw a slowdown in the fourth quarter.

After Qiagen reached a new milestone with more than 2,500 cumulative placements of QIAsymphony in January, the product has become a steady and consistent growth engine and it is planning for more than 200 new placements in 2020, he said.

Thanks to its expanded partnership with DiaSorin, Qiagen should be able to grow QuantiFERON by double digits again in 2020, Berenberg analysts said.

Reporting by Zuzanna Szymanska; Editing by David Clarke

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By Roy Freiman, Andrew Zwicker and Annette Quijano

We would never expect a bank to release our financial information any more than we would want the government to distribute our social security number, or a doctor to share our medical records. So why are we so compromising when it comes to the privacy of our most sensitive personal information: our genetic data.

Containing information as basic as your ethnicity to information comparably as intimate and unique as your fingerprint, genetic data can reveal a lot about who you are both on the surface and beneath it.

With the rise of direct-to-consumer genetic testing, millions of Americans began opting-in to services offered by private companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com with hopes of discovering more about their heritage, connecting with lost relatives or identifying increased risk for disease like Alzheimers and breast cancer. However, as they swabbed their mouth or spit in a tube and mailed in their DNA for analysis, few paused to consider the implications for their data privacy.

As details of how your data could be used and where it could end up remained deep in the fine print of company policies, many remained unaware of what and how much they had consented to give away. A Deloitte survey from 2017 puts the number of Americans willing to consent to legal terms and service agreements without reading them at 91%. That fact, paired with limited industry transparency, has put a huge burden on consumers and made informed consent relatively elusive.

Today, it is quite likely if you submitted your DNA sample for testing, your genetic data sit anonymized in a database owned by a pharmaceutical company, academic research group or some other third-party entity. In 2018, 23andMe struck a $300 million deal to share its genetic database with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, and the company maintains partnerships with Procter & Gamble Beauty, Pfizer and others. Ancestry.com similarly shared data, collaborating with Googles Calico to study aging.

And, while in the aggregate this data presents enormous opportunity for new drug development and biomedical advancement you can never really be sure that your data wont be leveraged by bad actors for all the wrong reasons.

As a number of studies have pointed out, anonymized data are not fool proof. With enough effort, a significantly large chunk of data can be traced to the originating individual and their relatives. Running crime scene evidence against DNA profiles publicly uploaded to GEDmatch, police solved the four decades old Golden State Killer cold case. Therefore demonstrating that, despite efforts by companies to detach identifying information, the promise of anonymity and privacy is difficult to guarantee.

We are lacking a regulatory framework to address the privacy of genetic information. As strong federal policy in this specific area has yet to emerge, what has resulted is an industry that remains largely under-regulated and a public that is alarmingly uninformed.

New Jersey cant wait. We need better safeguards for genetic privacy now. Thats why weve charted our own course, sponsoring legislation (A-1170) that not only requires consent to use DNA samples and any resulting genetic information, but also makes DNA samples the exclusive property of the individual.

Stipulating ownership of genetic data is about securing New Jersey consumers right to choose. Empowered and informed decision-making can only arise when we are the ones in control of who can and cannot access or use our data. Under the measure, we assure the power always remains in the hands of the consumer.

With this legislation, New Jersey would join 24 other states that require informed consent to disclose genetic information. The state also would become sixth after Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana in explicitly defining genetic information as personal property, and second only to Alaska in extending personal property rights to DNA samples.

Protecting people and ensuring all industry competitors play by the same rules are fundamental strategies to securing greater genetic privacy for New Jersey residents. Laws requiring fair and responsible industry behavior are how we keep genetic data in the right hands - the individual to whom it belongs.

Assemblyman Roy Freiman and Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker represent the 16th Legislative District, and Assemblywoman Annette Quijano represents the 20th Legislative District. Together they are sponsors of genetic data privacy legislation (A1170) introduced on January 14, 2020.

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New Squamish resident Dianne Russell moved to town in November, eight months after meeting her dad, Tom James, for the first time.

Long-time local James didn't know he even had another daughter before last summer.

Though dramatic, such a reunion tale really couldn't have worked out better.

Russell was raised in Kamloops, knowing she was adopted.

She was living in Vancouver until last fall.

Bouts with breast cancer led the 48-year-old to seek genetic testing in 2017. Denied this testing through the provincial government, she used the home DNA kit, 23andMe.

"I got my results, but found no genetic risk for breast cancer, she said, adding that at the time, she ignored the relatives section of the site.

But a year ago on Valentine's Day, she got a message in her inbox that would change the course of her life. "Hi, I'm not sure where you fit on my family tree, but it looks like we're cousins or something," read the message.

Long story short, she found cousins who eventually connected her to her Squamish father, James, who up until that point had no idea a short high school relationship had created a child, never mind that the baby girl had been adopted.

Russell was conceived in Squamish and born in Nanaimo.

"The next day after he found out, I got a phone call at 9 a.m. and we talked for over an hour and we have talked almost every day since," Russell said.

They met in person in June.

"My dad is just the most amazing man," she said. "He is a wonderful, emotional, supportive, empathetic man. I won the family lottery."

After their first meeting, there were trips to Squamish for Russell and her husband to spend time with her dad, his girlfriend and the rest of the family.

"Not only do I have a wonderful, loving father with whom I get along like a house on fire, but I have an amazingly supportive half-sister and half-brother, a nephew, four uncles, two aunts, in-laws, and a slew of great aunts, uncles, cousins, and more cousins many of them are here in Squamish, which is why my husband and I decided to move here from Vancouver."

The whole family and community of Squamish have enveloped her with open arms, Russell said.

"This situation has the possibility for a lot of discomfort and judgment and it hasn't felt like that ever."

There have been two large family reunions since she was introduced, Russell said, and the acceptance has been overwhelming.

"My family is Mtis, actually, and my great aunt presented me with a Mtis sash," Russell said, adding she had thought she was of British origin growing up.

"I am not English," she said with a hearty laugh.

Russell said she and her husband had been thinking of moving before all of this happened and once she met her long-lost family in Squamish that sealed the deal to move here.

"We missed so much time together that we just wanted to be here," she said.

From getting the first message about her family to today, the journey has been full of a mixed soup of emotions, Russell acknowledges.

Grief is one of the emotions she has dealt with.

"Because I think we both didn't have each other," she said. "We didn't have each other for 48 years. He didn't know I existed. He didn't have the opportunity to know me."

Her father's parents, her grandparents, both died without knowing she existed, she added. "There is grief on both sides, I think."

Her advice for anyone starting out on the journey of DNA testing is to be open to unexpected things and unexpected feelings, and reactions.

"You have to process it as you go."

"It was just like I had known her my whole life," James said of his first phone call with Russell. The pair talked long enough to kill the cellphone battery, he said.

"It was so bizarre and so easy. It was natural amazing."

When they met in the flesh at Park Royal on June 13,

"It was oh my God tears and hugs and happiness. It was absolutely crazy," he said. "There's my baby and she is 48 years old."

In looking at Russell, James said he sees some physical features from his mom's side of the family.

"There is some James in there too, in the ears and around the mouth a bit. She has got the James' ears," he said, with a chuckle.

James has been proud to show off his newly-gained daughter, taking her downtown to introduce her to the many who know him.

He looks forward to making up for lost time, he said.

"Just to be here for her, whenever she needs me. Just to be her dad."

Russell is currently changing her last name to her father's. By spring she will officially be a James.

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The global gene therapy market is expected to reach $13 billion by 2024 as new treatment options target cancers and other diseases.Now, a team of scientists from Purdue University and other research institutions around the world have come together to better understand the growing number of worldwide patented innovations available for gene therapy treatment. They specifically focus on non-viral methods, which use synthetic or natural compounds or physical forces to deliver materials generally less toxic than their viral counterparts into the therapy treatments.

The possibility of using non-viral vectors for gene therapy represents one of the most interesting and intriguing fields of gene therapy research, said Marxa Figueiredo, an associate professor of basic medical sciences in Purdues College of Veterinary Medicine, who helped lead the research team and works with the Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization to patent her technologies related to health. This is an innovative method for identifying the technological routes used by universities and companies across the world and uncovering emerging trends for different gene therapy sectors.

The scientists used big data, patent and clinical data mining to identify technological trends for the gene therapy field. They envision that their analysis will help guide future developments for gene therapy.

This work brought together investigators from across the globe in a joint effort to use new databases and methods to better understand the trends of the gene therapy field in respect to non-viral vectors. Dimas Covas, coordinator of the Center for Cell-based Therapy, affiliated with the University of So Paulo in Brazil, lent his extensive experience in cell therapy. Aglaia Athanassiadou, Virginia Picano-Castro and Figueiredo contributed their extensive experience on non-viral vectors for gene therapy. Cristiano Pereira and Geciane Porto brought their expertise in economics and business administration to the analyses. Each contribution was fundamental to achieving a new way to identify technological trends in this field.

This work brought together investigators from very diverse disciplines to create a different perspective of the gene therapy field, Figueiredo said. Our groups continue to work individually or in collaboration to generate and patent new vectors to help fill the needs of this re-emerging field of non-viral gene therapy.ReferencePicano-Castro et al. (2020) Emerging patent landscape for non-viral vectors used for gene therapy. Nature Biotechnology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0402-x

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Have you ever slipped when trying to avoid sugar, quit smoking, or break another habit or addiction? Usually that one piece of cake or one cigarette wont ruin your whole plan, but for people struggling with cocaine addiction, one slip can undo months of hard work.

Cocaine consumption is increasing, with 2.2 million people in the U.S. admitting to recent cocaine use in 2017. In 2014, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimated that nearly 1 million Americans were addicted to cocaine. The effect of cocaine on the brain and body is so powerful that, even after state-of-the-art treatments, many people trying to quit cocaine relapse within a year.

What if cocaine could be made less euphoric, so that a single use by a recovering addict doesnt result in a full-blown relapse? Scientists at the Mayo Clinic recently published progress toward making this idea a reality a gene therapy that would treat cocaine addiction by making cocaine less rewarding.

We are a molecular biologist and a neurobiologist who are interested in understanding and treating human disease, including neurological disorders such as cocaine addiction. As University of Tennessee faculty members leading basic biomedical research, we have worked for years on how genes are turned on and off in people and the effects of cocaine on mice, respectively. So, we were excited to see a promising convergence of novel gene therapy and cocaine addiction therapy.

Beginning more than 20 years ago, scientists have worked to engineer a new version of a human protein that could break down cocaine so quickly that it doesnt produce an addictive high. We all have the normal human protein BChE that helps regulate neurotransmitters, and which can slowly break down cocaine. Targeted mutations in BChE can turn it into a super-CocH a protein that can quickly break down cocaine. When this CocH is injected into the bloodstream, it breaks down cocaine very fast before the user can experience the pleasurable effects so a dose of cocaine is less rewarding. Being less rewarding means it is easier to stop using cocaine.

Previous research has shown that injections of the super-CocH protein drastically decrease addictive behavior in cocaine-addicted rats. Thats great. But the problem is that daily CocH injections would be too expensive and difficult to maintain for the years needed to prevent cocaine relapse for human users. It would be much more practical to provide a single treatment that could provide enough CocH to last for years.

One way to do that is gene therapy: Give patients the DNA sequence (the gene) that contains the instructions for making super-CocH so their bodies can keep making it for months or potentially years. Fortunately, over the past decade, this type of gene therapy has been moving from science fiction to hopeful reality. Clinical trials have demonstrated the potential of gene therapy to treat diseases from hemophilia to neurodegenerative disorders, and a handful of these are FDA-approved. The new Mayo Clinic study takes an important step toward making CocH gene therapy a reality.

How exactly does a scientist give a person a gene? You cant just swallow DNA the way you would a pill. The Mayo Clinic scientists had to find a way to deliver the gene to every cell in the liver. The way they did this was to insert the gene for super-CocH into a virus called adeno-associated virus (AAV). AAV has been modified so that when it infects cells it cannot reproduce in the body or make someone sick. It is just a delivery vehicle. The virus works by delivering the CocH gene to liver cells, where it remains for months or years. The cells read the super-CocH gene and use it to manufacture many copies of the CocH protein, which then breaks down cocaine.

In the new study, the team tested this approach in mice. The results are very promising and suggest that this gene therapy is safe and effective. Mice receiving the gene therapy alone were healthy. Mice given cocaine became hyperactive and showed signs of liver damage. When the mice were given cocaine plus gene therapy they behaved normally, as if they had not been given the drug. The cocaine was quickly broken down by their new super-CocH proteins, and their livers showed no signs of damage.

The results are promising enough that the FDA has approved plans to proceed with human clinical trials.

Keep in mind, this treatment wont hit the market anytime soon. It took six years from initial tests of AAV-CocH therapy in mice to reach the point where the technique is safe enough for human trials. There are many aspects of the treatment that need to be evaluated and modified to make sure it is both safe and effective in humans.

For example, AAV gene therapy can produce unwanted immune responses in people that will need to be carefully monitored. Issues such as discomfort caused by the therapy, different responses based on an individuals genetic makeup and interactions with other medications or medical conditions will also need to be addressed.

Because this study only monitored mice for two months, longer-term effects of the gene therapy will need to be investigated. Also, how well this therapy works to treat cocaine addiction in mice is not really known, and treating addiction in humans is certain to be even more complicated.

This gene therapy could someday make a dose of cocaine less rewarding, but a full recovery from addiction will likely require a combination of treatments administered over many years.

Like many, the two us have family members or friends who struggle with addictions that cannot be cured simply by trying harder. This recent work combines careful scientific progress with a creative new idea, giving hope to those trying to overcome cocaine addiction.

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The collaboration with Childrens Medical Research Institute will boost the efficiency of AAV purification, leading to increased access to the viral vectors needed to manufacture gene therapies

GE Healthcare Life SciencesandChildrens Medical Research Institutewill jointly drive the development of new affinity ligands for the purification of adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors used in gene therapies. The focus of the collaboration is to bring to market-specific ligands for multiple AAV types, enhancing the chromatographic separation of AAV-based vectors. This will improve the manufacturing efficiency and scalability of gene therapies, enabling the availability of viral vectors on a global scale.

With more than 800 gene therapies currently in clinical trials, there is an increasing demand for the raw materials needed in the manufacturing process of viral vectors. AAVs are viral vectors used in more than 70% of the in vivo gene therapy clinical trials. According to GlobalData, the 2025 gene therapy in vivo therapeutic market is expected to reach USD 32 billion with an estimated CAGR of 105% between 2019-2025.

The collaboration combines the expertise from the latest available research on AAVs with application testing, advancing a comprehensive understanding of the clinical functionality and the commercial opportunities of AAV-based gene therapies. Childrens Medical Research Institute will share with GE Healthcare Life Sciences AAV capsid variants targeting different tissues. GE Healthcare Life Sciences will then design and test ligand prototypes, which Childrens Medical Research Institute will assess. Based on the performance results, GE Healthcare Life Sciences will manufacture and commercialize novel improved AAV affinity ligands.

Dr Leszek Lisowski, the lead gene therapy scientist at Childrens Medical Research Institute, says: Bringing the fruits of our work to the patients requires a joint effort between academia and the industry. The collaboration with GE Healthcare Life Sciences will allow us to expedite the development of novel clinical options at a lower cost.

Olivier Loeillot, General Manager, Bioprocess at GE Healthcare Life Sciences, says: The industry needs better and more personalized technologies to speed biopharmaceuticals through clinical trials and bring them to market. Our long biomanufacturing expertise combined with Childrens Medical Research Institutes pioneering research will lead to purification technologies that will streamline the production of gene therapies.

Catarina Flyborg, General Manager, Cell and Gene Therapy at GE Healthcare Life Sciences, says: Collaborations with organizations such as Childrens Medical Research Institute are critical to developing the technologies needed to move the industry forward. By working directly with world-class researchers, GE Healthcare Life Sciences can develop the purification technologies that will contribute to increasing the availability of viral vectors globally.

Childrens Medical Research Institute in Australia is globally recognized for its work on microsurgery, cancer research, neurobiology, embryology and gene therapy. The AAV affinity ligands resulting from this collaboration will be compatible with GE Healthcare Life Sciences resin-based chromatography portfolio used in the purification of most FDA-approved biopharmaceuticals.

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Surge in investments in R&D activities, rise in prevalence of cancer, and increase in awareness about benefits drive the growth of the global gene therapy market. However, expensive costs related to gene therapies and undesirable responses from immune system restrain the market growth. On the other hand, unlocked potential from the emerging markets would offer new opportunities in the near future.

Based on vector type, the viral vector segment accounted for the highest market share in 2018, holding more than half of the global gene therapy market, owing to ease in modifications offered by many viruses including Lentivirus, RetroVirus & Gamma RetroVirus, and Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) for developing gene therapy drugs. However, the non-viral vector segment is estimated to grow at the fastest CAGR of 38.8% from 2019 to 2026. This is due to technological advancements taking place in physicochemical approaches of non-viral vectors.

Based on gene type, the tumor suppressor segment is estimated to portray the highest CAGR of 52.9% during the forecast period, owing to surge in number of methodology and clinical trials adopted for the gene therapy treatment. However, the antigen segment accounted for the highest share in 2018, accounting for more than one-fifth of the market, owing to the presence of different genetic mutations and dysregulated gene expression presented by tumor cells.

Based on region, North America accounted for the highest share in 2018, contributing for nearly half of the global gene therapy market, owing to rise in prevalence of rate of cancer and increase in investments for R&D activities. However, Asia-Pacific region is expected to grow at the fastest CAGR of 45.4% from 2019 to 2026, owing to increase in number of people getting affected by chronic diseases and launches of new gene therapy products.

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Global Gene Therapy Market to Reach $6.21 Billion by 2026: AMR - PRNewswire

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Gene Therapy Market by Vectors [Non-viral (Oligonucleotides), Viral (Retroviral (Gammaretroviral, Lentiviral)), Adeno-associated], Indication (Cancer, Neurological Diseases), Delivery Method (In Vivo, Ex Vivo), Region - Global Forecast to 2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

High incidence of cancer & other target diseases is a major factor driving the growth of the gene therapy market

The high incidence of cancer and other target diseases, availability of reimbursement, and the launch of new products are the major factors driving the growth of this market. In addition, the strong product pipeline of market players is expected to offer significant growth opportunities in the coming years. However, the high cost of treatment is expected to hamper the market growth to a certain extent in the coming years.

Neurological diseases segment accounted for the largest share of the gene therapy market, by indication, in 2018

Based on indication, the market is segmented into neurological diseases, cancer, hepatological diseases, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and other indications. The neurological diseases segment accounted for the largest share of the market in 2018. This can be attributed to the increasing number of gene therapy products being approved for the treatment of neurological diseases and the high market penetration of oligonucleotide-based gene therapies.

Viral vectors segment to register the highest growth in the gene therapy market during the forecast period

The gene therapy market, by vector, has been segmented into viral and non-viral vectors. In 2018, the non-viral vectors segment accounted for the largest share of this market. However, the viral vectors segment is estimated to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period, primarily due to the increasing demand for CAR T-based gene therapies and the rising incidence of cancer.

North America will continue to dominate the gene therapy market during the forecast period

Geographically, the market is segmented into North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and the Rest of the World. In 2018, North America accounted for the largest share of the gene therapy market, followed by Europe. Factors such as the rising prevalence of chronic diseases, high healthcare expenditure, presence of advanced healthcare infrastructure, favorable reimbursement scenario, and the presence of major market players in the region are driving market growth in North America.

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This report will help market leaders/new entrants by providing them with the closest approximations of the revenue numbers for the overall gene therapy market and its subsegments. It will also help stakeholders better understand the competitive landscape and gain more insights to position their business better and make suitable go-to-market strategies. Also, this report will enable stakeholders to understand the pulse of the market and provide them with information on the key market drivers, challenges, and opportunities.

Key Topics Covered:

1 Introduction

1.1 Objectives of the Study

1.2 Market Definition

1.3 Market Scope

1.4 Currency

1.5 Limitation

1.6 Stakeholders

2 Research Methodology

2.1 Research Data

2.2 Secondary Data

2.3 Primary Data

2.4 Market Size Estimation

2.5 Market Breakdown and Data Triangulation

2.6 Assumptions for the Study

3 Executive Summary

4 Premium Insights

4.1 Gene Therapy Market Overview

4.2 North America: Market, By Vector (2018)

4.3 Geographical Snapshot of the Market

5 Market Overview

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Market Dynamics

5.2.1 Drivers

5.2.1.1 High Incidence of Cancer and Other Target Diseases

5.2.1.2 Product Approvals

5.2.1.3 Funding for Gene Therapy Research

5.2.2 Opportunities

5.2.2.1 Strong Product Pipeline

5.2.3 Challenges

5.2.3.1 High Cost of Treatments

6 Gene Therapy Market, By Vector

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Non-Viral Vectors

6.3 Viral Vectors

7 Gene Therapy Market, By Indication

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Neurological Diseases

7.3 Cancer

7.4 Hepatological Diseases

7.5 Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

7.6 Other Indications

8 Gene Therapy Market, By Delivery Method

8.1 Introduction

8.2 In Vivo Gene Therapy

8.3 Ex Vivo Gene Therapy

9 Gene Therapy Market, By Region

9.1 Introduction

9.2 North America

9.3 Europe

9.4 Asia Pacific

9.5 Rest of the World

10 Competitive Landscape

10.1 Overview

10.2 Market Share Analysis, 2018

10.3 Key Strategies

10.4 Competitive Leadership Mapping (2018)

10.4.1 Visionary Leaders

10.4.2 Innovators

10.4.3 Dynamic Differentiators

10.4.4 Emerging Companies

11 Company Profiles

11.1 Biogen

11.2 Gilead Sciences, Inc.

11.3 Amgen, Inc.

11.4 Novartis AG

11.5 Orchard Therapeutics Plc

11.6 Spark Therapeutics, Inc. (A Part of Hoffmann-La Roche)

11.7 Molmed S.P.A.

11.8 Anges, Inc.

11.9 Bluebird Bio, Inc.

11.10 Human Stem Cells Institute (HSCI)

11.11 SIBIONO Genetech Co., Ltd.

11.12 Shanghai Sunway Biotech Co., Ltd

11.13 Uniqure N.V.

11.14 Gensight Biologics S.A.

11.15 Celgene Corporation (A Bristol-Myers Squibb Company)

11.16 Cellectis

11.17 Sangamo Therapeutics

11.18 Mustang Bio

11.19 AGTC (Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation)

11.20 Poseida Therapeutics, Inc.

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Global Gene Therapy Market is Projected to Reach USD 13.0 Billion by 2024 from USD 3.8 Billion in 2019, at a CAGR of 27.8% - ResearchAndMarkets.com -...

BOSTON and LONDON, Feb. 10, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Orchard Therapeutics (ORTX), a global gene therapy leader, today announced upcoming presentations from its neurometabolic franchise at the 16th Annual WORLD Symposium on February 10-13 in Orlando, FL. Accepted abstracts include encore clinical presentations for OTL-200 and emerging data quantifying metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) caregiver-reported quality of life experiences, as well as clinical data for investigational treatments in mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS-I) and mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA (MPS-IIIA).

Neurometabolic disorders such as MLD can have a devastating, lifelong impact, not only on children but on their caregivers, support systems and the broader community, said Mark Rothera, president and chief executive officer of Orchard. We look forward to showcasing both real-world and clinical study data from our neurometabolic portfolio at the upcoming WORLD Symposium as we strive to bring about a brighter future for all those affected by rare disease.

The presentations are listed below and the full preliminary program is available online at the conference website.

Oral presentation details:

Case report of the first patient treated with ex-vivo autologous haematopoietic stem cell gene therapy transplant in mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA*Presenter: Jane Kinsella, Royal Manchester Childrens HospitalSession: Translational Research IIDate: Wednesday, February 12Time: 9:15-9:30 a.m. ET

Lentiviral hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell gene therapy (HSPC-GT) for metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD): Clinical outcomes from 33 patientsPresenter: Francesca Fumagalli, San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene TherapySession: Clinical Trials II: Clinical OutcomesDate: Thursday, February 13Time: 8:15-8:30 a.m. ET

Poster presentation details:

Lentiviral hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell gene therapy (HSPC-GT) for metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD): Clinical outcomes from 33 patientsPoster abstract #: P126Presenter: Francesca Fumagalli, San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene TherapySession: Poster Reception (Exhibit Hall)Date: Monday, February 10Time: 4:30-6:30 p.m. ET

Caregiver-reported impact on quality of life and disease burden in patients diagnosed with metachromatic leukodystrophy: Results of an online survey and a qualitative interviewPoster abstract #: P320Presenter: Francis Pang, Orchard TherapeuticsSession: Poster Reception (Exhibit Hall)Date: Tuesday, February 11Time: 4:30-6:30 p.m. ET

Extensive metabolic correction of mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS IH, Hurler syndrome) by hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) based gene therapy (GT): Preliminary results from a phase I/II trialPoster abstract #: LB-15Presenter: Francesca Tucci, San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene TherapySession: Poster Reception (Exhibit Hall)Date: Wednesday, February 12Time: 4:30-6:30 p.m. ET

About OrchardOrchard Therapeutics is a global gene therapy leader dedicated to transforming the lives of people affected by rare diseases through the development of innovative, potentially curative gene therapies. Our ex vivo autologous gene therapy approach harnesses the power of genetically-modified blood stem cells and seeks to correct the underlying cause of disease in a single administration. The company has one of the deepest gene therapy product candidate pipelines in the industry and is advancing seven clinical-stage programs across multiple therapeutic areas, including inherited neurometabolic disorders, primary immune deficiencies and blood disorders, where the disease burden on children, families and caregivers is immense and current treatment options are limited or do not exist.

Orchard has its global headquarters in London and U.S. headquarters in Boston. For more information, please visit http://www.orchard-tx.com, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Forward-Looking StatementsThis press release contains certain forward-looking statements about Orchards strategy, future plans and prospects, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as anticipates, believes, expects, plans, intends, projects, and future or similar expressions that are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include express or implied statements relating to, among other things, the therapeutic potential of Orchards product candidates, including the product candidate or candidates referred to in this release, Orchards expectations regarding the timing of regulatory submissions for approval of its product candidates, including the product candidate or candidates referred to in this release, the timing of interactions with regulators and regulatory submissions related to ongoing and new clinical trials for its product candidates, the timing of announcement of clinical data for its product candidates and the likelihood that such data will be positive and support further clinical development and regulatory approval of these product candidates, and the likelihood of approval of such product candidates by the applicable regulatory authorities. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Orchards control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in these forward-looking statements. In particular, the risks and uncertainties include, without limitation: the risk that any one or more of Orchards product candidates, including the product candidate or candidates referred to in this release, will not be approved, successfully developed or commercialized, the risk of cessation or delay of any of Orchards ongoing or planned clinical trials, the risk that prior results, such as signals of safety, activity or durability of effect, observed from preclinical studies or clinical trials will not be replicated or will not continue in ongoing or future studies or trials involving Orchards product candidates, the delay of any of Orchards regulatory submissions, the failure to obtain marketing approval from the applicable regulatory authorities for any of Orchards product candidates, the receipt of restricted marketing approvals, and the risk of delays in Orchards ability to commercialize its product candidates, if approved. Given these uncertainties, the reader is advised not to place any undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.

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Other risks and uncertainties faced by Orchard include those identified under the heading "Risk Factors" in Orchards annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2018, as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 22, 2019, as well as subsequent filings and reports filed with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release reflect Orchards views as of the date hereof, and Orchard does not assume and specifically disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by law.

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*Patient was treated by the Royal Manchester Childrens Hospital (RMCH) under a Specials license, granted by the UK government for the use of an unlicensed pharmaceutical product in situations of high unmet need when there is no other treatment option available. Orchard holds the license to the MPS-IIIA investigational gene therapy product (OTL-201) and is funding the proof-of-concept clinical trial being conducted at RMCH, which utilizes the same technology and procedures that were used to treat this first MPS-IIIA patient.

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NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Hoth Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOTH), a biopharmaceutical company focused on unique targeted therapeutics for patients suffering from dermatological indications ranging from atopic dermatitis, psoriasis and acne along with gene therapy treatment for asthmatics, is pleased to announce the initiation of a preclinical study for the treatment of asthma and allergic inflammation in collaboration withNorth Carolina State University(NC State).

The study has begun thedelivery and distribution of nebulized particleswhich willenable the therapeutic oligonucleotide (oligo), short DNA and RNA molecules that have a wide range of applications in gene testing.Hoth has appointed Dr. Glenn Cruse to its Scientific Advisory Board and will oversee the Company's gene therapy programs advancements.

Mr.Robb Knie, Chief Executive Officer of Hoth Therapeutics, Inc. commented,"We are extremely pleased that our gene therapy program with NC State has officially begun and that Dr. Cruse who is overseeing the advancement ofexperimentshas joined our Scientific Advisory Board. Commencement of this initiative is an important step in the development and growth of our company. Dr. Cruse's expertise asa leading mast cell biologist in allergic and inflammatory diseases will be invaluable for the preclinical development of Splice-switching oligonucleotides (SSOs) for asthma."

In November 2019 Hoth entered into a licensing agreement with North Carolina State University (NC State) to study NC State's Exon Skipping Approach for Treating Allergic Diseases. This Exon Skipping Approach was developed by Dr. Glenn Cruse, Principal Investigator and Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine. During Dr. Cruse's research, a new approach for the technique of antisense oligonucleotide-mediated exon skipping to specifically target and down-regulate IgE receptor expression in mast cells was identified. These findings set a breakthrough for allergic diseases as they are driven by the activation of mast cells and the release of mediators in response to IgE-directed antigens.

Glenn Cruse completed his Ph.D. at Glenfield Hospital, The University of Leicester, UK in 2009. He then moved to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland in January 2010 to start a visiting postdoctoral fellowship in the Laboratory of Allergic Diseases, NIAID, In January 2015, Dr. Cruse was appointed as a Research Fellow in the same laboratory. Dr. Cruse joined the Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences at NC State in January 2016 as an Assistant Professor.

Dr. Cruse is a mast cell biologist that has authored and co-authored over 30 publications including articles in top journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA and Immunity. The Cruse lab is interested in the role that mast cells play in allergic and inflammatory diseases and identifying novel therapeutics that target mast cells. Since mast cells act as sentinel cells that participate in both innate and acquired immunity, particularly at biological barriers, emphasis on diseases in tissues at the interface with the environment such as the lung, skin, gastrointestinal tract and even the neuro-immune axis are the main focus of the lab.

About Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.Hoth Therapeutics, Inc. isa clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing new generation therapies for dermatological disorders. HOTH's pipeline has the potential to improve the quality of life for patients suffering from indications including atopic dermatitis, chronic wounds, psoriasis, asthma and acne. To learn more, please visitwww.hoththerapeutics.com.

Forward Looking StatementsThis press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements that relate to the advancement and development of the BioLexa Platform, the commencement of clinical trials, the availability of data from clinical trials and other information that is not historical information. When used herein, words such as "anticipate", "being", "will", "plan", "may", "continue", and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. In addition, any statements or information that refer to expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, performance or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking. All forward-looking statements are based upon Hoth's current expectations and various assumptions. Hoth believes there is a reasonable basis for its expectations and beliefs, but they are inherently uncertain. Hoth may not realize its expectations, and its beliefs may not prove correct. Actual results could differ materially from those described or implied by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including, without limitation, market conditions and the factors described under the caption "Risk Factors" in Hoth's Form 10K for the period endingDecember 31, 2018, and Hoth's other filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Consequently, forward-looking statements should be regarded solely as Hoth's current plans, estimates and beliefs. Investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Hoth cannot guarantee future results, events, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Hoth does not undertake and specifically declines any obligation to update, republish, or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, future events or circumstances or to reflect the occurrences of unanticipated events, except as may be required by law.

ContactsInvestor Relations Contact:Phone: (646) 756-2997Email:investorrelations@hoththerapeutics.comwww.hoththerapeutics.com

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Biotech stocks recovered last week along with the broader markets, which bounced back from a China coronavirus-induced sell-off.

Big pharma earnings took the spotlight, with Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK), Bristol-Myers Squibb Co (NYSE: BMY), Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD) and AbbVie Inc (NYSE: ABBV) among the notable ones reporting in the week. Merck surprised the markets by announcing plans to spin-off its slow-growing Women's Health, Legacy Brands and Biosimilars business.

Here're the key biotech catalysts for the unfolding week.

Bio CEO & Investor Conference: Feb. 10-11 in New York16th Annual WORLDSymposium: Feb. 10-13 in Orlando, FloridaGuggenheim Healthcare Talks/Oncology Day: Feb. 13 in New YorkASCO 2020 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium: Feb. 13-15 in San Francisco, California

FDA's Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet Friday to discuss the modified risk tobacco product applications submitted by 22nd Century Group Inc (NYSE: XXII) for VLN King and VLN Menthol King combusted, filtered cigarettes. The company projectsthese tobacco products to be "very low nicotine content" cigarettes.

Avrobio Inc (NASDAQ: AVRO) will present at the 2020 WORLDSymposium updates for its investigational programs in Fabry disease and cystinosis as well as data from the first clinical use of its plato gene therapy platform. At an analyst and investor event scheduled for Monday, the company will present updates on Phase 1/2 clinical trial of AVR-RD-04, an investigational gene therapy for cystinosis, and Phase 2 study of AVR-RD-01 in Fabry disease.

Regenxbio Inc (NASDAQ: RGNX) will make poster presentation of interim data from the Phase 1/2 trial of its investigational gene therapy RGX-121 for the treatment of Mucopolysaccharidosis Type II. The presentation is scheduled for Wednesday.

ASCO 2020 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium Presentations

Exelixis, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXEL): Phase 1b data for cabozantinib and Roche Holdings AG Basel ADR Common Stock's (OTC: RHHBY) Tecentriq in solid tumors (Thursday)

Advaxis, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADXS): Phase 1/2 data for ADXS-PSA and Merck's Keytruda from the KEYNOTE-046 study in castrate-resistant prostate cancer (Thursday)

TrovaGene Inc (NASDAQ: TROV): new Phase 2 data for onvansertib and zytiga in prostate cancer (Thursday)

Corvus Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: CRVS): updated Phase 1b/2 data for CPI-444 in solid tumors

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Revolution Medicines, a biotech developing targeted cancer therapies using RAS pathway inhibitors, has filed to offer 10 million shares in an IPO, which is expected to be priced between $14 and $16. The company expects its shares to be listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "RVMD."

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PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Feb. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: INO) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted its Investigational New Drug (IND) application to evaluate its DNA medicine INO-3107 in a Phase 1/2 trial for treatment of Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis or RRP. RRP is a rare disease caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) types 6 and 11 infections, a condition that causes noncancerous tumor growths leading to life-threatening airway obstructions, and occasionally can progress to cancer. Currently, the disease is incurable and is mostly treated by surgery, which temporarily restores the airway. The tumor almost always recurs and the surgery must be repeated, often multiple times a year. RRP can severely impact the quality of life for those living with the disease.

The open-label, multicenter Phase 1/2 trial will enroll approximately 63 subjects in the U.S. and will evaluate the efficacy, safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of INO-3107 in subjects with HPV 6 and/or 11-associated RRP who have required at least two surgical interventions per year for the past three years for the removal of associated papilloma(s). For this study, adult subjects will first undergo surgical removal of their papilloma(s) and then receive four doses of INO-3107, one every three weeks. The primary efficacy endpoint will be a doubling or more in the time between surgical interventions following the first dose of INO-3107 relative to the frequency prior to study therapy. Upon obtaining sufficient safety and potential efficacy data in adults, Inovio plans to expand the trial to include pediatric patients as well as a potential booster regimen.

"Inovio's investigational DNA medicine INO-3107 is designed to destroy and clear tumors caused by HPV 6 and 11 infections from the body exactly where they are hiding," said Jeffrey Skolnik, M.D., Inovio's Vice President of Clinical Development. "We believe this DNA medicine has the potential to provide people living with RRP a long-term, if not life-long, improvement in their disease, especially as an alternative to often successive and debilitating surgeries that may temporarily remove HPV growths from the airways but do not address the underlying recurring virus."

J. Joseph Kim, Ph.D., Inovio's President and Chief Executive Officer, said "Our mission at Inovio is to rapidly provide patients with urgent health needs access to our novel DNA medicines. We are pleased the FDA has authorized our INO-3107 clinical trial, and look forward to working closely with the RRP patient and medical community to drive recruitment as quickly as possible."

In addition to initiating this efficacy trial, Inovio also plans to attain Orphan Disease designation with the FDA's Office of Orphan Products Development (OOPD). The FDA grants orphan status to drugs and biologic products that are intended for the safe and effective treatment, diagnosis, or prevention of rare diseases or disorders that affect fewer than 200,000 people in the United States. OOPD provides a drug developer with certain benefits and incentives, including a period of marketing exclusivity if regulatory approval is ultimately received for the designated indication.

Inovio recently published data from its pilot clinical study of INO-3106 (DNA medicine candidate targeting HPV6 caused RRP) in the scientific journal Vaccines (MDPI). Study results demonstrated that INO-3106 generated immunogenicity and engagement and expansion of an HPV 6-specific cellular response, including cytotoxic T cells. The paper also showed that Inovio's immunotherapy allowed two out of two patients who previously required approximately two surgeries per year for several years to manage this disease to delay the need for surgery to a robust degree; with one patient able to delay surgery for over a year and a half (584 days surgery-free) and a second that remained surgery-free for over two and a half years (over 915 days surgery-free).

About Inovio's DNA Medicines

Inovio has 15 DNA medicine clinical programs currently in development focused on HPV-associated diseases, cancer, and infectious diseases, including the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) under a grant from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). DNA medicines are medicines composed of optimized DNA plasmids, which are small circles of double-stranded DNA that are synthesized or reorganized by a computer sequencing technology and designed to produce a specific immune response in the body.

Inovio's DNA medicines deliver optimized plasmids directly into cells intramuscularly or intradermally using Inovio's proprietary hand-held smart device called CELLECTRA. CELLECTRA uses a brief electrical pulse to open small pores in the cell reversibly to allow the plasmids to enter. Once inside the cell, the plasmids begin replicating, thereby strengthening the body's own natural response mechanisms. Administration with the CELLECTRA device ensures that the DNA medicine is delivered directly into the body's cells, where it can go to work immediately mounting an immune response. Inovio's DNA medicines are not interfering with or changing in any way an individual's own DNA, which is the case with gene therapy or gene editing.

With more than 2,000 patients receiving Inovio investigational DNA medicines in more than 6,000 applications across a range of clinical trials, Inovio's DNA medicines have consistently activated safe, robust, and fully functional T cell and antibody responses against targeted pathogens and cancers.

About RRP

Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is a rare disease (estimated at 15,000 active cases in the U.S.) that is characterized by the growth of tumors in the respiratory tract caused by the human papillomavirus. Although benign, papillomas can cause severe, even life-threatening airway obstruction and respiratory complications. A distinguishing aspect of this disease is the tendency for the papilloma to recur after surgical procedures to remove them. Left untreated, if RRP develops in the lungs, affected individuals can potentially experience recurrent pneumonia, chronic lung disease (bronchiectasis) and, ultimately, progressive pulmonary failure. In extremely rare cases (less than 1%), papillomas can become cancerous (malignant transformation) developing into squamous cell carcinoma. Additional symptoms of RRP can include hoarse voice, difficulty in sleeping and swallowing, and chronic coughing. RRP symptoms are usually more severe in children than in adults. In children, the disorder is most often diagnosed at or around the age of four years. In adults, the disorder occurs most often in the third or fourth decade.

About Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Inovio is a biotechnology company focused on rapidly bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat, cure, and protect people from diseases associated with HPV, cancer, and infectious diseases. Inovio is the first and only company to have clinically demonstrated that a DNA medicine can be delivered directly into cells in the body via a proprietary smart device to safely produce a robust immune response to destroy and clear high-risk HPV 16 and 18, which are responsible for 70% of cervical cancer, 90% of anal cancer and 69% of vulvar cancer. In addition to HPV, Inovio's optimized plasmid design and delivery technology have been demonstrated to consistently activate robust and fully functional T cell and antibody responses against targeted cancers and pathogens. Inovio's most advanced clinical program, VGX-3100, is in Phase 3 development for the treatment of HPV-related cervical pre-cancer. Also in development are Phase 2 immuno-oncology programs targeting HPV-related cancers and GBM, as well as externally funded vaccine development programs in Zika, MERS, Lassa, HIV, and the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Partners and collaborators include ApolloBio Corporation, AstraZeneca, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, GeneOne Life Science, HIV Vaccines Trial Network, Medical CBRN Defense Consortium (MCDC), National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Regeneron, Roche/Genentech, University of Pennsylvania, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and The Wistar Institute. For more information, visit http://www.inovio.com.

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements relating to our business, including our plans to develop DNA medicines, our expectations regarding our research and development programs, as well as commercialization activities, including the planned initiation and conduct of clinical trials, the availability and timing of data from those trials and our commercialization strategy and tactics. Actual events or results may differ from the expectations set forth herein as a result of a number of factors, including uncertainties inherent in pre-clinical studies, clinical trials, product development programs and commercialization activities and outcomes, the availability of funding to support continuing research and studies in an effort to prove safety and efficacy of electroporation technology as a delivery mechanism or develop viable DNA vaccines, our ability to support our pipeline of SynCon active immunotherapy and vaccine products, the ability of our collaborators to attain development and commercial milestones for products we license and product sales that will enable us to receive future payments and royalties, the adequacy of our capital resources, the availability or potential availability of alternative therapies or treatments for the conditions targeted by us or our collaborators, including alternatives that may be more efficacious or cost effective than any therapy or treatment that we and our collaborators hope to develop, issues involving product liability, issues involving patents and whether they or licenses to them will provide us with meaningful protection from others using the covered technologies, whether such proprietary rights are enforceable or defensible or infringe or allegedly infringe on rights of others or can withstand claims of invalidity and whether we can finance or devote other significant resources that may be necessary to prosecute, protect or defend them, the level of corporate expenditures, assessments of our technology by potential corporate or other partners or collaborators, capital market conditions, the impact of government healthcare proposals and other factors set forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018, our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2019, and other filings we make from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. There can be no assurance that any product candidate in our pipeline will be successfully developed, manufactured or commercialized, that final results of clinical trials will be supportive of regulatory approvals required to market products, or that any of the forward-looking information provided herein will be proven accurate. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this release, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise these statements, except as may be required by law.

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A new type of cancer cell therapy could avoid some of the serious side effects commonly associated with CAR-T treatments, and possibly offer an easier path to developing "off-the-shelf" treatments, suggest findings from a small study led by researchers at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

The results, which were published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, are from just 11 patients. Other factors, such as the use of postremission therapy, limit what conclusions can be drawn about the researchers' approach, which relies on "natural killer" cells rather than the T cells used in cellular drugs like Novartis' Kymriah.

Still, the data offer a glimpse into why Japanese drugmaker Takedaagreed last November to license the CAR NK cell therapy from MD Anderson, part of the company's broader push into cell and gene treatments. Some of the data published Wednesday was previously disclosed by the pharma.

The success of cancer immunotherapy, of which CAR-T treatments are a major part, has put T cells at the center of a now decade-long research revival in oncology.

But T cells are only one component of the body's immune system, and scientists in academia and in biotech are exploring whether other cellular defenders could be similarly recruited.

Researchers at MD Anderson have turned to natural killer cells, which by design recognize and attack cancers or other invaders. Such cells have been tested as an anti-cancer treatment before,but using genetic engineering to improve their tumor-killing properties, which the MD Anderson team has done, is a newer innovation.

"To my knowledge, this is the largest body of evidence on the use of CAR NK cells in patients with cancer," said Katayoun Rezvani, the study's corresponding author and a professor of stem cell transplantation and cellular therapy at MD Anderson, in an interview.

Using NK cells derived from cord blood, Rezvani and her colleagues engineered the cells to express a receptor for a protein called CD19, commonly found on the surface of B-cell malignancies like leukemia and lymphoma. They also added a gene for interleukin-15 to boost the expansion and persistence of the infused NK cells, which without engineering would typically disappear after about two weeks.

While the CAR-T treatments Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) and Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel) also target CD19, they are made from a patient's own T cells, which are extracted and then engineered outside the body. The personalized process is time-consuming and laborious, hampering the commercial uptake of both Kymriahand Yescarta.

By using cord blood, Rezvani and her team are pursuing an allogeneic, or "off-the-shelf," approach to cell treatment something many consider to be the next step for the field.

Initial data look promising. Seven of the 11 treated patients, who had either chronic lymphocytic leukemia or non-Hodgkin lymphoma, responded to treatment, with the cancers of three going into remission.Most notably, none experienced cytokine release syndrome or neurotoxicity, two severe side effects that commonly occur in patients treated with CAR-T therapy.

"The lack of toxicity is very exciting here," wrote Stephan Grupp, an oncologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a leader in the CAR-T field, in comments emailed to BioPharma Dive. He was not involved with the MD Anderson study.

"We really think that this is something inherent to the biology of the natural killer cells, which means their profile of toxicity is different than that of T cells,"Rezvanisaid.

Study participants did have blood toxicities that researchers associated with the chemotherapy given prior to infusion of the CAR NK cells.

While positive, the results are limited by several factors which make drawing broader conclusions about the ultimate potential of the treatment difficult.

Five of the seven responding patients received postremission treatment, including stem cell transplants, Rituxan (rituximab) and Revlimid (lenalidomide), so researchers did not assess the duration of response to CAR NK therapy.

Additionally, a fresh CAR NK cell product was manufactured for each patient in this study, rather than using the cord blood to produce multiple therapies as would be envisioned for a true off-the-shelf product.

"I think the potential for this approach to be 'off-the-shelf' is also a little speculative at this time," wrote Grupp.

"We would need to see multiple patients treated from the same expanded product with no HLAmatching to know if 'off-the-shelf' is going to be part of the story here," he added, referring to the process by which patients are matched to donor cells.

If cord blood-derived CAR NK cells were able to be given without matching to a patient's HLA genotype, any resulting treatment could be used more widely. Nine patients were partially matched in the MD Anderson study, while the last two were treated without consideration of HLA type.

The MD Anderson researchers plan to continue enrolling patients in the study and are working with Takeda to design a larger, multi-center trial.

The drugmaker is planning to advance the treatment, which it licensed and now calls TAK-007, into pivotal studies in two types of lymphoma and CLL by 2021, with a potential filing for approval in 2023.

"Targeting CD19 was a proof of concept and now that we've demonstrated that this CAR NK approach can work and is safe we want to use this platform to target other types of cancers," said Rezvani, indicating interest in multiple myeloma and acute myeloid leukemia.

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Although vaping-related lung illnesses are declining, more than 2,700 have been reported across the U.S. and its territories since last March, according to the CDC. A total of 60 have died. Public health news is on a rare neuromuscular disease, cervical cancer, obesity, preparing for civilization's end, longevity, vocal disorders, postpartum depression, organ transplants, a sweet substitute for kids' cough medicines, Alzheimer's disease, mental health, and medical errors, as well.

The Wall Street Journal:Vaping-Related Deaths Fall, But Families Still Look For AnswersKimberly Boyd keeps a stack of her sons medical files on her dining-room table, in neatly organized folders. In a Ziploc bag, there are some of the nicotine vaping cartridges he used at their Orlando, Fla., home before the 28-year-old died in November. Across the country, in Seattle, Robin Hurt is waiting for a response to a public-record request she filed with the states medical examiner in Oregon, asking for the autopsy report on her 23-year-old grandson, who unexpectedly died in October after having recently taken up vaping. (Ansari, 2/9)

Stat:Lottery Like No Other Offers A Cutting-Edge Medicine With Lives On The LineThe treatment, a gene therapy called Zolgensma, is designed for children like Wynter who have a neuromuscular disease called spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA. Without it or other treatments, those with the most serious type are likely to die as babies. It was first approved by U.S. regulators only last year, and is not yet available in other countries. The lottery was devised by the drugs manufacturer, Novartis, to give families in those places a chance to get it through a novel form of compassionate use a way to get medications that have not been approved while they wait. Fifty doses are slotted to be given away for free in the first half of the year, with up to 100 total. The first drawing occurred Monday. (Joseph and Silverman, 2/7)

The Washington Post:WHOs Aggressive, Three-Part Strategy Aims To Make Cervical Cancer A Thing Of The PastIn just 35 years, the United States managed to reduce cervical cancer rates by 54 percent with the help of Pap smears. Now, human papillomavirus vaccination, double screening and more effective treatment might be able do away with the cancer. In two new studies in the Lancet, the World Health Organization lays out how. The studies model what might happen if the United Nations health agency commits to a three-part strategy to wipe out cervical cancer. (Blakemore, 2/8)

The New York Times:Half Of Us Face Obesity, Dire Projections ShowClimate change is not the only source of dire projections for the coming decade. Perhaps just as terrifying from both a health and an economic perspective is a predicted continued rise in obesity, including severe obesity, among American adults. A prestigious team of medical scientists has projected that by 2030, nearly one in two adults will be obese, and nearly one in four will be severely obese. (Brody, 2/10)

WBUR:Preparing For The End Of The World, On A BudgetA Harvard Ph.D. and former military intelligence officer with 30 years of experience, Miller would know a good defensible spot when he sees it. Miller is a self-described "prepper," someone who makes active preparations to survive the fall of human civilization. The nationwide prepper community is often painted as composed of conspiracy-crazed eccentrics, he said, thanks in large part to television shows such as the National Geographic Channel's Doomsday Preppers. (Boyce, 2/10)

The Washington Post:For Aging, Strength Training Is Vital In Avoiding Injuries And Staying IndependentWhen an intruder broke into the Rochester, N.Y., home of 82-year-old Willie Murphy a few months ago, he was met with a big surprise. Murphy, a diminutive but powerlifting woman, quickly jumped into action, using her strength to pummel the intruder with a broom and send him running for the door. Not surprisingly, the story went viral as people embraced the images of the elderly Murphy flexing her muscles for the cameras. (Loudin, 2/9)

Stat:The Vodka Trial: In Search Of A Treatment For Vocal Disorders, A Researcher Puts Patient Anecdotes To The TestPharmacists had prepared the therapy specifically for her, in little reddish bottles that reminded her of liquid penicillin. A research assistant gave her careful instructions. But Feeley already knew exactly what do to do. What do you do with a shot of vodka? Basically, you pour it down your neck. So I drank it and then banged the bottle on the table, Feeley said. Usually, shes more of a wine or daiquiri sort of person, but shed put aside her taste and a few days of her time to help answer a question that had been rattling around Simonyans mind. It had first appeared about 15 years ago, when Simonyan was doing neuroscience research in New York City, trying to understand exactly how the brain choreographs the intricate dance of muscle and air that gives rise to speech. (Boodman, 2/10)

CNN:Women Who Have General Anesthesia During C-Sections Are More Likely To Experience Postpartum Depression, Study FindsWomen who have general anesthesia during C-sections are significantly more likely to experience severe post-partum depression resulting in hospitalization, suicidal thoughts or self-harm, according to a study published last week. That might be because general anesthesia can delay breastfeeding and skin-to-skin interaction between the mother and infant, and often results in more acute and persistent pain after childbirth, researchers from Columbia University explained. "These situations are often coupled with a new mother's dissatisfaction with anesthesia in general, and can lead to negative mental health outcomes," said Jean Guglielminotti, lead author and an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Columbia, in a news release. (Kaur, 2/8)

Kaiser Health News:How Lifesaving Organs For Transplant Go Missing In TransitWhen a human heart was left behind by mistake on a Southwest Airlines plane in 2018, transplant officials downplayed the incident. They emphasized that the organ was used for valves and tissues, not to save the life of a waiting patient, so the delay was inconsequential. It got to us on time, so that was the most important thing, said Doug Wilson, an executive vice president for LifeNet Health, which runs the Seattle-area operation that processed the tissue. (Aleccia, 2/10)

NPR:A Cough Cure For Kids? Try HoneyIf you don't have little kids, or it's been a while, let me just break down for you why kids' coughs can be a truly miserable problem that can drive you to madness. Imagine this: Your kid's coughing it's almost always worse at night then they start crying because they're tired and can't sleep with all the coughing. The coughing and crying means that not only do they not sleep, but you also don't sleep no one in the house sleeps and this can go on for weeks. (Simmons-Duffin, 2/8)

Kaiser Health News:Finding Connections And Comfort At The Local CafeDoug and Connie Moore met at seminary. He was a student and pastor of an inner-city congregation, and she was a student and a public health nurse. Shes the one who drew me to the needs of the poor, Doug says. The pair wed in 1974, and Doug became a pastor at the First Evangelical Free Church of Los Angeles in 1983. They became deeply involved in their community and dedicated much of their free time to teaching English as a second language, creating tutoring programs and mentoring students in poor communities here and abroad. (De Marco, 2/10)

The Washington Post:How Anxiety And Midlife Crisis Are Playing Out Among Gen-X WomenThree years ago, Ada Calhoun couldnt sleep. The 41-year-old writer stared at her ceiling wondering why her hard-won accomplishments had left her feeling exhausted, anxious and wanting. She had written two well-regarded books and a long list of magazine articles. She was married and her son had just been accepted to a great public middle school. From the outside, she knew, her life looked good. (Schaaff, 2/8)

USA Today:Mom Of HBO's Bleed Out Filmmaker Steve Burrows Dies 11 Years After Hip Surgery, Brain DamageThe producer and director of an HBO documentary about his mother's medical errors at a Milwaukeehospital went to Capitol Hill lastweek to show clips of the film.Three nights later,Steve Burrows' mother, Judie, diedat 79 after an 11-year struggle to survive. Friday, the Milwaukee medical examiner's office saidher death was due to complications of repeat hip surgeries.(O'Donnell, 2/8)

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With advances in modern medicine accelerating forward, demand for lab space and health-care facilities has also seen a rapid growth. In Cushman & Wakefields latest report on the life sciences industry, the sector has demonstrated steady and strong market fundamentals.

With an aging and growing population, the life sciences sector is continuously working on new technologies to improve quality of life. But to keep advancing, companies are seeking additional lab space and more employees. Combined with a steady flow of research capital, the life sciences sectors market fundamentals have made it more resilient to the cyclical nature of the real estate market.

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Currently, there are 52.4 million people aged 65 and older in the U.S and by the next decade, that number is expected to exceed 73 million. Similarly, the report noted that the median age in the U.S. increased to 38.2 in 2018 and is expected to reach 40 by 2030. As the population grows, so does demand for new treatments, drugs and equipment.

With such inevitable demand, technological advances in life science categories like genomics, gene editing and cell and gene therapy have taken off. Specifically, the cell and gene therapy sector commanded a $1.1 billion market cap in 2018, but is expected to grow by 36.5 percent in the next five years and hit an $11 billion market cap. Similarly, both the genomics and gene editing sectors will also grow by more than 10 percent each in the next five years.

As these sectors grow, so does demand for employees. Starting from the end of 2013, the amount of jobs in the biotech research and development industry has increased by 70,000 each year, or roughly 7.5 percent. In the life sciences sector overall, there were 204,800 jobs in the industry in 2019, with 67 percent of them concentrated in 11 metropolitan life sciences hubs.

Considering the growing need for space and employees, rents have increased, while vacancy rates have declined throughout major markets. Throughout the U.S., vacancy rates dropped to 7.1 percent for lab space versus the 12.4 percent rate for office space. With lower vacancy rates, rent for lab space in the 12 most popular life sciences markets has increased to $43.10 per square foot, compared to office spaces average rent of $40.30 per square foot.

Certain markets have also developed into strong life sciences hubs, with areas like Boston/Cambridge having close to no vacancy. The markets of Boston/Cambridge and the San Francisco Peninsula offer the largest markets, with 21.8 million of life sciences space, but others like New Jersey, have also risen to the top due to its history of being home to major pharmaceutical manufacturers. Markets like Boston/Cambridge, the San Francisco Peninsula and Oakland/East Bay all experienced an explosive growth in their talent pools in the last decade.

Earlier this year, Boston Properties partnered with Alexandria Real Estate Equities to combine their nearby properties and develop their first life sciences real estate development in a San Francisco biotech campus.

Despite the last two economic downturns, the life sciences sectors employment has increased 87.9 percent since 2000. While the industry is still subject to the ups and downs of the market, the report noted that the life sciences market is more likely to weather the storm than other sectors.

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Facts and Factors Market Researchhas published a new report titled Gene Therapy Market By Type (Germ Line Gene Therapy and Somatic Gene Therapy), By Vector Type (Viral Vectors, Non-Viral Vectors, and Human Artificial Chromosome), and By Therapy Area (Cancer, Neurological Diseases, Infectious Diseases, Genetic Disorders, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Others): Global Industry Perspective, Comprehensive Analysis, and Forecast, 2018 2027.

According to the report, the globalgene therapy market was valued at approximately USD 919 million in 2018 and is expected to reach a value of around USD 6,892 million by 2027, at a CAGR of around 25.1% between 2019 and 2027.

Gene therapy is the kind of experimental method that makes use of genes for treating or preventing disease by inserting foreign genetic material like DNA or RNA into the persons cells. Scientists are studying gene therapy for treating various kinds of immuno-deficiencies, Parkinsons disease, HIV, and cancer by using myriad approaches. Today, many of the approaches to gene therapy are undergoing most intensive & rigorously testing. This includes replacing the mutated gene causing disease with the healthy gene copy. Another approach includes knocking out or inactivating a mutated gene operating improperly. Yet another approach includes a new gene into the body to combat the disease.

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Between the periods from 2012 to 2018, nearly five single-use gene treatments received approval from the U.S. FDA for treating a rare form of genetic disorders. Moreover, gene treatments that have received approval are being tested by pharmaceutical firms in the market. Apart from this, current approvals of gene therapy products across the U.S., as well as European countries for treating a plethora of life-threatening diseases, are anticipated to steer the growth of gene therapy industry over the forecast timeline. Moreover, gene therapy can also be used for treating neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and spinal muscular atrophy.

Furthermore, many of the reputed pharma firms like Bristol-Myers Squibb, BioMarin, and Pfizer are investing massively into the research activities pertaining to gene therapy. Apart from this, a rise in the occurrence of cancer is prompting the demand to treat the disease. Gene therapy is one of the key treatment kinds that will propel the market growth over the forecast period. However, inadequate reimbursement policies pertaining to the one-time gene treatments will downgrade market expansion.

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In addition to this, conducting of randomized controlled trials can pose a threat to the expansion of the gene therapy industry as a result of the gene therapy features & projected patient population. Nevertheless, the ability of the gene therapy to eliminate the number of ailments with faulty or missing genes like hemophilia A will promote the market growth over the forecast period and thereby nullify the negative impact of hindrances on the business growth.

Somatic gene therapy to dominate the type segment

The growth of the segment over the forecast timeline is credited to the ability to treat the targeted cells in the patient population. The treatment is not passed to future generations and is restricted to only the patient who receives the somatic gene therapy. Moreover, it is used for treating a huge number of disorders like cystic fibrosis, cancer, and muscular dystrophy.

Cancer to lead the therapy area segment over the forecast period

The segmental expansion is attributed to a large number of pipeline drugs registered over the past few years along with increasing occurrence of cancer as a result of genetic changes.

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North America to dominate the overall regional market share during the forecast timespan

North American market, which accrued revenue of USD 380 million in 2018, is set to contribute majorly towards the overall market revenue by 2027. The regional market surge is credited to robust healthcare amenities, high per capita healthcare spending, and improvement in the reimbursement policies.

The key players included in this market are Advanced Cell & Gene Therapy, Audentes Therapeutics, Benitec Biopharma, Biogen, Blubird Bio, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, CHIESI Farmaceutici SPA, Eurofins Scientific, Geneta Science, Genzyme Corporation, Gilead, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Human Stem Cells institute, Novartis AG, Orchard Therapeutics, Pfizer Inc., Sangamo therapeutics, Spark therapeutics, and Voyager Therapeutics.

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Vectors are utilized in developing cancer treatments and this is likely to steer the growth of the plasmid market over the forecast timeline. In addition to this, continuous ongoing research targeting cancer and approvals of many of the biopharmaceutical medicines for treating cancer will impel the growth of the plasmid market over the forecast timeframe. Apart from this, the growing occurrence of chronic as well as contagious diseases producing escalating demand for improved therapies will proliferate the market scope over the forecast timespan.

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F-plasmids segment is predicted to accrue a revenue of nearly USD 124 million by 2027. Some of the plasmids like F-plasmids possess the genes referred to as transfer genes enabling conjugation and this is likely to drive the expansion of the segment over the forecast timeline.

Gene therapy segment to contribute majorly towards the application landscape

The growth of the gene therapy segment is credited to a rise in the investment in research activities pertaining to gene treatment. Apart from this, increase in the awareness about the gene therapy, government support, and adoption of gene therapy for treating cancer will amplify the expansion of the gene therapy segment over the period from 2019 to 2027.

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North American market is likely to accrue a revenue of approximately USD 160 million by 2027. The growth of the market in the region is attributed to rising in the healthcare spending, approval of gene treatments for various chronic ailments, and rise in the investments in research activities pertaining to gene therapy applications in various domains.

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Biogen $BIIB just won one of the biggest fights its ever faced.

The big biotech beat Mylans challenge on the patents that guard their cash cow, Tecfidera, the multiple sclerosis drug that drove the companys comeback under George Scangos and sustains his successor Michel Vounatsos as they search for new drugs.

In the inter partes review ruling, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board or PTAB determined:Having considered all the evidence, petitioner has not demonstrated by a preponderance of the evidence the unpatentability of claims 1-20 of the 514 patent.The news, a closely watched catalyst that had analysts on high alert, immediately triggered a huge 29% spike in their share price. Tecfidera earned $3.3 billion in 2019, almost half its revenue for the year.

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A company developing means to edit genes at the single-letter level has raised nearly $200 million in its initial public offering.

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Beam Therapeutics said Wednesday evening that it had priced its IPO at $180 million, or $17 per share. The company began trading Thursday on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol BEAM.

The company had filed to go public in September, aiming at a $100 million IPO. J.P. Morgan, Jeffereies and Barclays acted as joint book runners.

Its last major financing before the IPO was a Series B funding round that it raised in March worth $135 million. The company launched with an $87 million Series A round in May 2018 after operating in stealth mode for a year.

Beams work focuses on base editing, a technology that enables editing of the genome letter by letter, as opposed to the cutting technique usually involved in CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing. Each letter of the genome corresponds with a specific nucleobase: A for adenine, G for guanine, T for thymine and C for cytosine. In other words, base editing would enable changing C to T, G to A and so forth. The company has a licensing agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Universitys Broad Institute for co-founder and CRISPR/Cas9 pioneer Feng Zhangs RNA base-editing technology.

Its most recent presentation of data was in April 2019, when it showed preclinical data from its base editing platform at the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapys annual meeting in Washington. For the study, Beam used the base editor BE4 for multiplex base editing of engineered CAR-T cells, showing the ability to knock out expression of three cell surface targets TRAC, B2M and PD-1 in 95%, 95% and 88% of cells, respectively. That technique, the company said, may be able to create CAR-T cells with improved therapeutic properties.

Gene editing is a key technology used for the creation of CAR-T cells derived from donors rather than from patients own T cells, also known as allogeneic or off-the-shelf CAR-Ts, with both CRISPR/Cas9 and TALEN gene-editing technology being used. Without such modifications, off-the-shelf CAR-T cells would be rejected by the body.

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Their nine lives may be running out but if a major project works, Scottish wildcats could eventually roam the nation once again, finds Sandra Dick

Somewhere between the polar bear, the Bactrian camel and the Japanese macaque, Felis silvestris, among the rarest of them all, is usually found hiding behind a cairn, up a tree or curled up in a ball, snoozing.

At noon most days, however, visitors to the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig near Aviemore will be treated to a fleeting glimpse of its bushy tail, mean green-yellow eyes and thick fur, as one of the nations most elusive creatures emerges to snatch a lump of meat for lunch before retreating to the shadows.

For most park visitors, that brief glimpse of the Scottish wildcats is at the top of their list of must-see attractions, possibly alongside Hamish the juvenile polar bear, a national treasure and the first cub born in the UK for 25 years, and the Amur tiger.

What they wont see, however, is a massive behind-the-scenes effort spanning the UK and Europe, and which its hoped will throw a lifeline to ensuring Scottish wildcats 70 times more endangered than the giant panda will not just be around for generations to come, but could eventually become established in locations right across Scotland.

Tucked out of sight on a patch of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotlands park which is out of bounds to visitors, a new wildcat reintroduction centre is about to become "ground zero" for the survival of a fragile species entwined in Scottish national identity but currently in a fierce catfight for its very survival.

A combination of cross-breeding with feral and domestic cats, habitat loss, road accidents, historic persecution and disease has all but wiped out the purest of Scotlands treasured wildcat population.

Left to their own devices, the tiny number with genes not already severely diluted from mating with outsiders, will dwindle, fade and disappear.

Hopes are now pinned on a 5.5 million scheme led by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) and, almost certainly, some amorous intervention from the species closest European cousins to help the Scottish wildcat get back on its feet.

By the end of this year, the first wildcats will be in settled in at the new reintroduction centre, 12 breeding pairs which assuming nature takes it course should produce enough healthy offspring to see 60 wildcats reintroduced to carefully picked spots in the Cairngorms over a three-year period.

Eventually its hoped they could be reintroduced elsewhere in Scotland raising the possibility of the creatures becoming commonplace across the country.

Although, according to David Barclay, cat conservation project officer with the RZSS who currently oversees the 107 wildcats in the UK-wide breeding programme, the first challenge is to save the handful of remaining Scottish wildcats from extinction.

Theres perhaps a very small number of wildcats left in Scotland, he admits. And we have a lot of evidence that says the population is non-viable.

Without putting more wildcats back, they will almost certainly go extinct in the next few years.

Wildcats are in that short list of animals that are iconic species for Scotland, such as the golden eagle and the red squirrel, he adds.

For Scotland not to have wildcats would be a very sad day.

At Kincraig, a recent 3.2million EU LIFE grant added to funding from the Garfield Weston Foundation, the National Trust for Scotland, the Peoples Trust for Endangered Species and the European Nature Trust, has enabled work to start on building the new centre.

A recruitment drive is now under way to find 16 staff while plans are being drawn up for a major campaign to encourage domestic cat owners to neuter their pets to avoid the main threat to wildcats future, hybridisation.

Feral or domestic cats that enter the wildcat reserve will be trapped, neutered, vaccinated and released.

Most of the 12 breeding pairs are expected to be sourced mainly from the UK-wide wildcat breeding programme but some are likely to make the journey from Europe, in particular Spain, where wildcats have been found to share physical similarities to their Scottish relations, and populations are more stable.

It may sound like a further erosion of the Scottish wildcats precious gene pool, however Mr Barclay insists the European presence will strengthen, not weaken, the wildcats chances of survival.

The European wildcats will improve the gene pool, he states. The cat we have is a European wildcat, its just a different population thats more critically endangered.

If we have to bring some cats from Europe and it would be a relatively small number we would want to bring them from a population where we feel that there are similarities with Scottish cat.

And Spanish wildcats look very similar to Scottish wildcats.

If you bring wildcats from Europe, you are bringing new genetic material which gives Scottish wildcats a boost in terms of the gene pool.

The fight to save Scotlands wildcats has already crossed international boundaries: as well as working with Scottish Natural Heritage, the Cairngorms National Park Authority and Forestry and Land Scotland, the RSZZ Saving Wildcats project the only official wildcats project in the country is partnered with Swedish wildlife park Nordens Ark, and Spains Junta De Andaluca, which led the successful recovery of the Iberian lynx.

It has been boosted by the arrival of two potential "Adam and Eve" wildcats: male and female, both accidentally trapped, both found to have surprisingly strong wildcat genes.

While the male is now at an English zoo where its hoped nature will soon play its part in boosting wildcat numbers, the female, Lossie, has already produced five kittens from two litters.

Last year, one of her offspring, Katrine, delivered her first litter four kittens, each carrying on its tiny shoulders the future of a species which has roamed Scotlands hills since the Ice Age.

For next few years its about getting all the right tools in one place so we can create a viable, sustainable population of wildcats in one location, adds Mr Barclay.

Once we have been through that process and know that the reintroduction technology works, then we can replicate that across Scotland.

The crucial element is controlling the threat: we cant release them until the threat is removed, and one of the biggest threats in hybrid and domestic cats.

The reintroduction of wildcats would follow in the wake of the reintroduction of sea eagles, water voles and beavers to the wild each native to Scotland but brought to extinction through hunting and loss of habitat.

The wildcats return could also pave the way for other animals including lynx and wolves. Campaign group Rewilding Britain has also suggested the reintroduction of long-gone species including the dalmatian pelican, bison, boar and moose.

Worryingly, however, are further signs that Scottish wildcats and in some cases their European cousins are hanging by the thinnest of threads.

Last month an international genetic study of wildcats in 13 European countries published in the journal Conservation Genetics warned it had failed to identify a single pure wildcat in Scotland.

Across Europe, wildcat numbers were also found to be affected by hybridisation, with the first example of a hybrid cat in the Eastern Alps of Austria.

In Scotland, we found exclusively hybrids of different classes, indicating hybridisation has been occurring for several generations, it states. All samples from Scotland were identified as hybrids supporting previous findings that the genetic integrity of that wildcat population has been seriously compromised.

It also presented a dire warning for the future of the species.

Frequent hybridisation with the domestic cat may regionally threaten the genetic integrity of the European wildcat, as documented by the example of the wildcat in Scotland, it adds, potentially leading even to the genetic extinction of local populations.

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The Fulton County Health Department has scheduled the following health clinics and services.

CANTON The Fulton County Health Department has scheduled the following health clinics and services. Please call the number listed with each service for an appointment or more information.

Maternal child health: Health screenings, WIC nutrition education and supplemental food coupons for women, infants and children. To make an appointment or for more information call 647-1134 (ext. 254). For Astoria clinic appointments call 329-2922.

Canton - Clinic - Monday, Feb 10 - 8-4 - Appt needed

Canton - WIC Nutrition Education - Tuesday, Feb 11 - 8-4 - Appt needed

Astoria - Clinic, WIC Nutrition Educ. - Wednesday, Feb 12 - 9-3 - Appt needed

Canton - Clinic - Thursday, Feb 13 - 8-4 - Appt needed

Adult Health Immunizations: Various vaccines are available. There is a fee for immunization administration. Medicaid cards are accepted. To make an appointment or for more information call 647-1134 (ext. 254).

Other times available by special arrangement at Canton, Cuba and Astoria.

Blood Lead Screening: Blood lead screenings are available for children ages one to six years. A fee is based on income. To make an appointment or for more information call 647-1134 (ext. 254). For Astoria appointments call 329-2922.

Family Planning: Confidential family planning services are available by appointment at the Canton office for families and males of child-bearing age. Services provided include physical exams, pap smears, sexually transmitted disease testing, contraceptive methods, pregnancy testing, education and counseling. Services are available to individuals of all income levels. Fees are based on a sliding fee scale with services provided at no charge to many clients. Medicaid and many insurances are accepted. After hours appointments are available. To make an appointment or for more information call the 647-1134 (ext. 244). *Program funding includes a grant from the US DHHS Title X.

Pregnancy testing: Confidential urine pregnancy testing is available at the Canton and Astoria offices. This service is available to females of all income levels. A nominal fee is charged. No appointment is needed. A first morning urine specimen should be collected for optimal testing and brought to the health department. Services are provided on a walk-in basis on the following days each week:

Canton: Every Wednesday & Thursday, 8-3:30 (for more information call 647-1134 ext. 244)

Astoria: Every Wednesday, 9-2:30 (for more information call 329-2922)

Womens Health: A womens clinic for pap tests, clinical breast examinations and vaginal examinations is available by appointment. There is a nominal fee for this service. Medicaid cards are accepted. Financial assistance is available for a mammogram. Cardiovascular screenings may be available to age and income eligible women. To make an appointment or for more information call 647-1134 (ext. 244).

Mammograms: Age and income eligible women may receive mammograms at no charge. Speakers are available to provide information to clubs and organizations. For more information or to apply for financial assistance, call 647-1134 (ext. 254).

Mens Health: Prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood tests are available for men for a fee. To make an appointment or for more information call 647-1134 (ext. 224).

Canton - Clinic - Monday, Feb 10 - 8-12 - Appt needed

Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Clinic: Confidential STD and HIV testing services are available by appointment to males and females at the Canton office. Services include physical exams to identify STDs, a variety of STD testing, HIV testing, education, counseling, medications and condoms. There is a nominal fee for services. Services are available to individuals of all income levels. Medicaid cards are accepted. To make an appointment or for more information call 746-1134 (ext. 224).

HIV Testing and Counseling: Confidential HIV testing and counseling services are available by appointment through the sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic at the Canton office. To make an appointment or for more information call 647-1134 (ext. 224).

Tuberculosis (TB) Testing: TB skin tests are available at no charge by appointment. To make an appointment or for more information call 647-1134 (ext. 254).

Blood Pressure Screenings: The Fulton County Health Department provides blood pressure screenings at no charge on a walk-in basis during the following times:

Canton - Screening - Monday, Feb 10 - 8-4 - Walk in/Room 108

Cuba - Screening - Monday, Feb 10 - 8-12 - Walk in

Astoria - Screening - Wednesday, Feb 12 - 9-12 - Walk in

Health Watch Wellness Program: The Health Watch Program provides low cost lab services. Through this program adults can obtain venous blood draws for a variety of blood tests. Blood tests offered without a doctors order Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (CMP), Complete Blood Count (CBC), Lipid Panel, Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test, Hepatitis C test, and Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH). A wide variety of blood tests are also available with a doctors order. There is a charge at the time of service. To make an appointment or for more information call 647-1134 (ext. 254).

Canton - Clinic - Monday, Feb 10 - 8-12 - Appt needed

Dental Services: The Dental Center offers a variety of basic dental services to children and adults. An appointment is needed. Medicaid and Kid Care cards are accepted. To make an appointment or for more information call 647-1134 (ext. 292).

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Margot* always felt confident taking her contraceptive pill. I never experienced any side effects aside from getting slightly larger breasts, which I thought was great, she says. I took it religiously for four years and everything was going great until my GP told me they could no longer offer me that same pill because it had run out.

Instead the 26-year-old from London was offered a cheaper alternative that she was promised contained the same ingredients, just with different branding. It made me so unwell, she recalls. Suddenly I was experiencing constant nausea in the mornings, vomiting and I had the mother of all periods. Thankfully, Margot was eventuallyable to get hold of her old pill through private healthcare provided by her employer. If I didnt have that, Id be screwed.

Margot is just one of the women across the UK who has suffered the consequences of contraceptive shortages, which health officials havewarnedis causing chaos. Its not clear why the shortages are happening, but without access to their regularcontraception, women around the country are being forced to find alternatives that require major expenses, lifestyle changes or leave them with awhole host of uncomfortable side effects.

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On Friday, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), the British Menopause Society and The Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) wroteto the secretary of state for health and social care, Matt Hancock, urging for a working group to be set up to address ongoing supply constraints for both contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy in the UK. As well as this affecting the physical and mental wellbeing of women and girls, the professional bodies are concerned that contraceptive shortages will affect the most vulnerable in society. TheRCOGhas also said shortages could lead to a rise in unplanned pregnancies and abortions.

Speaking toThe Independent, Julia Hogan of MarieStopes one of the UKs leading abortion providers explains that they regularly speak to women who have experienced difficulties accessing contraception. Not only have many services been shut down due to cuts to sexual health clinics, but when women do manage to find a clinic many are being denied the full range of contraception, including some of the most effective long-acting methods, she says.

Such restrictions, Hogan says, put limits on womens bodily autonomy and leave them with fewer choices. Its enormously concerning and frustrating, she adds, because investment in contraceptive care is one of the most cost-effective public health measures, with every 1 invested in contraception saving 11 in averted costs.

One form of contraceptive that has been impacted isSayana Press, a self-injectable contraceptivefor which there is no exact alternative. Women who use Sayana Press now have to see a healthcare professional to access a non-self-injectable alternative, which is undoubtedly an extra burden for them, increasing demand in busy GP practices and sexual and reproductive healthcare clinics, saidDr Asha Kasliwal, president of the FSRH.At the moment, the resupply date for Sayana Press is unknown.

Paige, 26,had been on Sayana Press for 11 months and found it an accessible and easy to manage form of contraception. But when she recently went to her GP for a top-up, she was told they had run out and was promptly sent around to walk-in clinics, pharmacies and other doctors to no avail. The whole experience left me feeling anxious and stressed, Paige says, explaining that she regularly had to leave work early to make calls to clinics or attend doctorappointments.

I felt as though my right to access my chosen contraception was being taken away from me and I didnt want to drastically change my contraceptive during a time when I was already moving house and going on holiday. While on her hunt for Sayana Press, Paige, who is based in London, visited one walk-in clinic, calledtwo, attended one GP appointment, one appointment with a nurse and visited three different pharmacies.

Not one of these informed me that there was a shortage of Sayana Press in the UK. It was only through her own research that she discovered Sayana Press had been recalleddue to a manufacturing fault, which had resulted in the shortage. Ultimately, I had to change my contraception and am now using Depo-Provera, which Ive been on for four weeks so far.

Paige said the changeover has been fairly straightforward, although she can no longer administer the injections herself at home and must visit a nurse every 12 to 13 weeks to receive it. I liked using Sayana Press becauseit removed the issue of trying to book an appointment so often with the nurse, she says. Securing appointments is getting harder and harder and when you do, managing to get one out of work hours is nearly impossible.

Funding for sexual health services has plummeted in the last eight years after sexual health clinics were made the responsibility of local councils, rather than NHS England in 2013. This meant that funding clinics receive is part of the same pool that also pays for bin collections and speed bumps. The change has seen a reported 64m less being spent on sexual health services, according to the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV. With less funding, clinics around the UK are closing while others have started turning patients away. These contraceptive shortages mean there is additional strain being put on an already stretched service.

Alex*, 42, also had a negative experience when the pill shed been taking for years was suddenly discontinued. I liked itbecause I had very slight monthly bleeds and it gave me no side effects, she explains. Suddenly it just stopped being manufactured, and my GP could give me no explanation as to why. Instead, my doctorprescribed me another pill that was the wrong dose and severely affected my mental health.

I just had a tough time emotionally, and it was hard to know if it was just life loador it was because the levels of oestrogen in my body were wrong.Now, Alexhas started using a different pill that seems to be okay so far, though it gives her headaches. Ill try it for a couple of months to see if it settles and just takeparacetamol in the meantime.

Alexsays the impact is undoubtedly gendered and creates an unfair burden on women. Its just yet another responsibility that falls to me as a woman, she says. Its up to me to go to three chemists in my lunch hour to see if theyve got it in. Its up to me to go back to the doctor and ask for a new script. Its up to me to collect it, try it, feel ill, go back, try another one. But ultimately Ive just had to get on with it.

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Molly*, 27, from south east England, suffers from an autoimmune disease, which means shes not medically allowed to use any of the hormonal contraceptives. I can only use the copper coil, she explains.It took months just to get an initial consultation appointment at my local sexual health clinic. Then I had to book another appointment after that before I could even book my coil fitting. I called seven different clinics looking for someone who could sort me out sooner.

Molly now has to wait four months for her copper coil to be fitted; the waiting time is making her anxious. Im just trying to be a responsible adult, she says, explaining that shes just started seeing a new romantic partner. I feel like Im gambling every time I have sex. Its not fair and is making me feel really uneasy, which I shouldnt have to feel in a new relationship when everythings meant to be so fun and natural.

*Some names have been changed to protect identity

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