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Modality moves at Vertex

How Vertex hopes to reach more patients with Arbor's CRISPR tools

January 18, 2019 3:40 AM UTC

In licensing a suite of newly discovered gene editing tools, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. is broadening its options for solving problems that its core small molecule technology can’t address.

On Jan. 3, Vertex announced a deal with Arbor Biotechnologies Inc. that gives it access to novel CRISPR endonucleases -- the workhorse enzymes of the technology -- allowing the company to sidestep the complex IP landscape surrounding the more commonly used CRISPR-Cas9 (see “Plenty of CRISPR Pie.”)...