Intellia Therapeutics in the NEWS Yesterday, January 31, Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) announced that the results from Phase 1 portion of the Phase 1/2 study of NTLA-2002 were published online in the New England Journal of Medicine (

Intellia Therapeutics' NTLA-2001 Intellia Therapeutics' NTLA-2001 is the first-ever investigational in vivo CRISPR-based gene editing therapy cleared to enter late-stage clinical development.   Today, October 18, 2023, Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) announced that the U.S. Food and . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Intellia Therapeutics Receives PRIME Designation from EMA Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted Priority Medicine (PRIME) designation to its product NTLA-2002.  As we already know, NTLA-2002 is an in vivo CRISPR-based investigational therapy designed to prevent potentially life-threatening swelling attacks in people with Hereditary Angioedema  (HAE). From Intellia Therapeutics . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please …

Prohost Letter #455 Introduction Our Prohost Letter disappeared for six months. Several reasons dictated our decision to temporarily halt its publication. The major reason was the devastating visit of COVID-19. COVID -19 paralyzed many countries. It devastated the world’s economy, caused catastrophic inflation and the stock market’s relentless volatility. The worst of these damages was its killing of over one million people in the United …

May 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) –Today, Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) released its 2023 Corporate Responsibility report. The report provides a comprehensive update of the Company’s performance and progress across key Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) areas of focus. John Leonard, M.D., Intellia President and Chief Executive Officer said, “As the leaders in a new era of medicine, we believe ESG principles support long-term value creation for …

Intellia Therapeutics  Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) announced that the U.S. FDA has cleared the company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application for NTLA-2002.  About NTLA-2002 Based on Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR/Cas9 technology, NTLA-2002 is the first single-dose investigational treatment. NTLA-2002 is Intellia wholly owned investiga- tional CRISPR therapeutic candidate designed to inactivate the kallikrein B1 . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to …

Intellia Therapeutics  Intellia Therapeutics.(NTLA) and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN) today announced positive interim results from an ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial of NTLA-2001, an . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Intellia Therapeutics to Present Interim Clinical Data from NTLA-2002 Trial for Hereditary Angioedema An abstract featuring interim clinical data from the Phase 1/2 study of Intellia Therapeutics’ (NTLA) product NTLA-2002 has been selected for an oral presentation at the 2022 Bradykinin Symposium, taking place September 15-16 in Berlin, Germany. NTLA-2002 NTLA-2002 is an investigational in vivo CRISPR/Cas9 therapy in development as a single-dose treatment to prevent …

Prohost Comprehensive Letter #451 Shorting Biotech Firms with Solid Fundamentals Unfair shorting of promising stocks seems to have become the norm during the harsh circumstances that not only the United States but several other countries have been living under for more than two years. The bad circumstances in the United States seem to be motivating unfair short-sellers to take advantage of bad news and cause …

Prohost Comprehensive Letter #450 BEAR MARKET. BAD MARKET. UNPREDICTABLE MARKET. Stock market investors usually learn from responsible sources about the status of the factors influencing the country’s economy. This is not what’s going on today. Investors have been unaware of the facts and factors that influence the economy, which includes the soaring inflation, crude oil and gas prices, the true future of COVID-19, the Russian …

Comprehensive Prohost Letter Issues Reality The Best of words in informative texts are the smallest in number and the most truthful in contents. That’s what Prohost believes, especially in the presence of the cruel circumstances our entire planet is currently living. Last Friday, the three indexes of the stock market had their best performances since the 4th quarter of 2020. Why? We don’t know, but …

Some Gains in Biotech Stocks During the War in Europe On Tuesday, Mar 8,2022 the United States’ government decided to ban the importation of Russian oil, liquefied natural gas and coal. This decision was made to further deprive Russia from the resources that enable it to continue with the unwarranted war against Ukraine. This resolution has come at a time when the price of oil …

Intellia Therapeutics Statement on Recent U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Decision – In May 2012, the Regents of University of California, University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, “CVC”) filed a patent application for their CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology. The CVC team led by Drs. Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier promptly brought these discoveries to the public, and in June 2012 published a seminal paper …

Intellia Therapeutics Loses Technology Patent and Suffers a Selloff A selloff of Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) stock occured when the U.S. Patent and trademark office ruled that CRISPR genome editing technology patent belongs to the Broad Institute. It's stating that a team of researchers led by Feng Zhang beat Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier in making CRISPR editing possible. This new . . . This content …

Intellia Therapeutics Acquires Rewrite Therapeutics The acquisition is, indeed good news. By acquiring Rewrite Therapeutics, Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) has inherited a versatile DNA writing platform which enables a range of innovative genome editing strategies. The acquisition is expected to further expand Intellia’s industry-leading genome editing toolbox by adding a highly complementary platform to its existing CRISPR/Cas9 and . . . This content is for paid …

We Are Back! Thanks to God. Hello to all our subscribers. Our sickness was unanticipated, making our year start in February rather than January. We will tackle the sickness later in another article. Now it is time to appreciate and offer our love and thanks from the bottom of our hearts for those who wished us well, prayed for our recovery and made it happen. …

The Bizarre Assessment of Biotech Firms in the Stock Market The Clinical-Stage Biotechnology Firms  We are witnessing inexplicable evaluations of clinical-stage biotechnology companies. Bizarre is the best description of this group’s assessment which is based on incomes that do not exist in biotech firms that are yet to have approved and marketed products anywhere in the world. Unfortunately, the most impacted firms by the bizarre …

Intellia Therapeutics to Present at ASH Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) announced the presentation of data from its ex vivo research and development efforts in two poster presentations at the 63rd American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition taking place in Atlanta, GA, as well as virtually, December 11-14, 2021. From the CSO at Intellia Therapeutics Laura Sepp-Lorenzino, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Intellia Therapeutics, said, “As we continue to …

Intellia Therapeutics Granted Orphan Drug Designation for NTLA-2001 Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) announced that the U.S. FDA has granted orphan drug designation to NTLA-2001 for the treatment of transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis. This investigational therapy is the first CRISPR therapy to be administered systemically to edit a disease-causing gene inside the human body. NTLA-2001 has the potential to be the first single-dose treatment for ATTR amyloidosis as it …

Intellia Therapeutics and SparingVision Collaboration Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) and SparingVision - a genomic medicine company developing vision saving treatments for ocular diseases, announced a strategic collaboration to develop novel genomic medicines utilizing CRISPR/Cas9 technology for the treatment of ocular diseases. Intellia Therapeutics is to grant SparingVision exclusive rights to Intellia . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to …

Denali Therapeutics News Denali Therapeutics (DNLI) -  a biopharmaceutical company developing a broad portfolio of product candidates engineered to cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for neurodegenerative diseases.  Denali pursues new treatments by rigorously assessing genetically validated targets, engineering delivery across the BBB and guiding development through biomarkers that demonstrate target and pathway engagement. Denali is based in South San . . . This content is for …

Intellia Therapeutics Authorization of CTA for Phase 1/2 Study of NTLA-2002 Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) announced the authorization of its Clinical Trial Application (CTA) by the New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority (MEDSAFE) to initiate a Phase 1/2 study evaluating NTLA-2002 for the treatment of adults with hereditary angioedema (HAE). About Hereditary . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or …

The Comprehensive Prohost Letter Issues The Comprehensive Prohost Letter Issues will constitute a chain of 7 issues. Today’s issue will include the following: Pinpointing and selecting the biotech firms that demonstrate readiness to treat untreatable, devastating diseases. Presenting an important antibody cocktail for the treatment of COVID-19. Stating our position regarding the Alzheimer’s disease firm Cassava Sciences. Pinpointing Prohost’s . . . This content is …

Intellia Therapeutics IND Application of NTLA-5001 for AML is Accepted by the US FDA NTLA-5001 is Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) first wholly-owned ex vivo CRISPR genome editing candidate for the treatment of cancer. It is an autologous T cell receptor (TCR)-T cell therapy engineered to target the Wilms’ Tumor (WT1) antigen for the treatment of all genetic subtypes . . . This content is for paid …

Agenus Inc News and Q2 Results for 201 Agenus (AGEN) announced results with better than usual news including the following:  $200 million received from BMS for anti-TIGIT bispecific antibody collaboration FDA cleared IND for AGEN1777 clinical enrollment AGEN1181 rapidly advancing in the clinic - data to be presented in 2H 2021 Cell therapy . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to …

Prohost Letter #446 A Reevaluation of Prohost Biotech’s Picked Firms We have already pinpointed some of the devastating and life-threatening diseases that have yet to find treatment. Prohost’s plans are about discovering small &/or large biotech or biopharma firms that demonstrate scientific capability for treating or curing these diseases. Most of the firms that we picked for investment in yesteryears had solid scientific and managerial …

bluebird bio Receives EC Approval for  bluebird bio (BLUE) announced that the European Commission (EC) has granted marketing authorization of SKYSONA™ (elivaldogene autotemcel, Lenti-D™) one-time gene therapy for the treatment of early cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (CALD) in patients less than 18 years of age with an ABCD1 genetic mutation, and for whom a human leukocyte antigen . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to …

Prohost Portfolio PLUS #7 Companies Behind The Biotechnology Revolution Without these firms, basic science discoveries in the universities and the academic institutions and by the firms themselves would remain unutilized and shelved. Most of the firms we picked for the Prohost Portfolio are bringing novel products to newly discovered targets, and most have offered proof of concept of their hypotheses. Having said that, we add …

Prohost Portfolio PLUS #6 Yes, it is a Miracle! Intellia Therapeutics and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals This miracle news from Intellia Therapeutics and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals came Saturday, a day when the Market is taking rest from the usual yo-yoing of good/bad reasons and no reasons. This miracle of great news emanated from Intellia Therapeutics. The first-ever clinical data from a trial that supports safety and efficacy of in vivo CRISPR …

Blackstone Life Sciences, Intellia Therapeutics and Cellex Cell Professionals New Company Blackstone (BX) announced that funds managed by Blackstone Life Sciences have committed $250 million towards the launch of a new autologous and allogeneic universal chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy company with Intellia Therapeutics (

Focus on Intellia Therapeutics Upcoming Presentation for NTLA-2001 Data to offer insight into safety and pharmacodynamics of NTLA-2001, the first-ever systemically administered in vivo CRISPR therapy candidate Late-breaking abstract selected for oral presentation on June 26 Intellia Therapeutics NTLA-2001 for People Living with hATTR-PN Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) announced that Phase 1 . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Cassava Sciences Awarded NIH Research Grant for Simufilam Cassava Sciences (SAVA) announced that it has been awarded a new $2.7 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant was awarded following a peer review of clinical and scientific data for simufilam, its drug candidate for Alzheimer's disease, and is intended to fund clinical readiness activities . . . This content is …

Intellia Therapeutics NTLA-2001 for ATTR Granted Orphan Drug Designation by the EC Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) announced that the European Commission (EC) has granted its product NTLA-2001 orphan drug designation. The investigational product is being developed as a treatment for transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR), a rare condition that can impact a number of organs and tissues within the . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here …

Current Presentations from Intellia Therapeutics  Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) is presenting the first preclinical data set on its novel cytosine deaminase base editor technology at the seventh Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) virtual scientific meeting on Nucleic Acid Therapies. The data shows how the Company’s proprietary base editors can expand its genome editing capabilities by enabling the introduction of multiple gene knockouts simultaneously with no detectable increase in …

The Nonsensical Downgrading of Development-Stage Firms Like Intellia Therapeutics It makes no sense to downgrade a development-stage firm such as CRiSPR gene editing IntelliaTherapeutics (NTLA) when only based on stopping short of attaining analysts’ expectations with regard to revenues and incomes. Development-stage firms yet to have products on the market to generate money, contrarily, serious development-stage firms . . . This content is for paid …

Prohost Letter #444 The End of the Year Issue was delayed because our 2020 Prohost Portfolio stocks’ targets for the year failed to materialize; nobody not even the authorities were capable of predicting the pandemic, which continues to plague the world. As 2021 approached, we were unable to the End of the Year issue on time as we lacked the information required for the fair …

Intellia Therapeutics and CRISPR/Cas9 Technology Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) is a genome editing company, focused on the development of potentially curative therapeutics using the CRISPR/Cas9 system. Intellia believes the CRISPR/Cas9 technology has the potential to transform medicine by both producing therapeutics that permanently edit and/or correct disease-associated genes in the human body with a single treatment and creating enhanced . . . This content is for …

Intellia Therapeutics in the News Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) presented the first demonstration of physiological protein levels of human alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) in non-human primates (NHPs) following a single administration.  Intellia Therapeutics Liver Gene Insertion Technology Intellia’s targeted liver gene insertion technology has the ability to achieve therapeutic levels of protein . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to …

CRISPR, Intellia and Editas, Our Gene-Editing Sisters, are Rallying The three CRISPR gene-editing firms that we have chosen are enjoying rallies. CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP) and Intellia Therapeutics (

Prohost Letter #443 The Biotechnology Industry The Biotechnology Industry revolutionized the arts of life sciences with accomplishments promising a tremendous improvement in the treatment of chronic, debilitating, progressive and life-threatening diseases. The improved approaches have been game changers in the treatment of cancers and genetic-derived hereditary and non-hereditary chronic diseases. The out-performance was made possible through the biotech industry’s creativity, innovation and remarkable productivity. The …

Intellia Therapeutics Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) stock price headed south probably because some robots learned that the firm commenced an underwritten public offering of $150 million of shares of its common stock. In addition to the commenced public offering Intellia announced its intention to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional fifteen percent (15%) of the shares . . . This content is …

Reata Pharmaceuticals We picked Reata Pharmaceuticals (RETA) for investment after confirming that the products the Company has created and is currently developing have a novel mechanism of action that enables the treatment of severe diseases that have yet to find treatments. Reata’s strategy is to build a deep understanding of the cellular response to injury in order to develop . . . This content is …

CRISPR Therapeutics Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, Co-Founder CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP) announced on October 7, 2020 that Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her groundbreaking work on the CRISPR/Cas9 system.  Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier is the co-founder of CRISPR Therapeutics together with Rodger Novak and Shaun Foy. Dr. Charpentier is the Founding, Scientific and Managing . . . This content is …

Intellia Therapeutics Scientific Co-Founder Shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Collaborator On October 07, 2020 Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., one of Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) scientific co-founders, was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology. Dr. Doudna shared the award with her research collaborator, Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, one of . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here …

Johnson & Johnson ENSEMBLE Trial for Its COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) announced the launch of its large-scale, pivotal, multi-country Phase 3 trial, ENSEMBLE, for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, JNJ-78436735. The initiation of the ENSEMBLE trial follows positive interim results from Phase 1 . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Intellia Therapeutics  Reporting operational highlights and financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2020, Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) announced its first Clinical Trial Application to the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to initiate a Phase 1 study of NTLA-2001 for transthyretin . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

CRISPR, Intellia and Editas CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP) announced revenues of Q4 2019 that beat analysts’ expectations. Based on the good news the stock market’s technicians contributed to boosting the stock’s price enabling the stock to recuperate a large part of its unwarranted recent selloff losses. New investors, who finally heard about the CRISPR gene editing technique and the Companies that specialize in it, seem to …

The Market May be Plummeting But Prohost Picks are Not Biotech stocks had a strong start, but the gains disappeared in many stocks as the market demonstrated bearishness following a long-lasting rally. Currently, during the strong economic conditions, commentators attribute the reasons for the market’s upside and downside moves to China’s positive, or negative ongoing negotiations rather than to fair correction of overbought or oversold …

Migraine's Really Effective Treatments The years 2018 and 2019 could be called the years of migraine’s really effective treatments. Three Calcitonin-gene-related peptide (CGRP) monoclonal antibody drugs have been approved in 2018 and 2019. They are: Aimovig for Amgen (AMGN . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Gene Therapy Stocks Experiencing Selloffs  Every investor in the biotech sector must have experienced selloffs of the stocks from companies specialized in gene therapy, gene editing, antisense, RNAi and mRNA therapies. Recently, bluebird bio’s (BLUE) stock was devastated. The selloffs occurred for many reasons, most of . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Prohost Letter #425 When Common Sense Fails to Explain the Market Performance It is not unusual for the stock market to be in a selloff mood for a few days. However, in the last couple of months, the market unexpectedly plunged deep into the ocean of the unknown. The exaggerated volatility was nerve-wracking for professional analysts. This is especially true for candid analysts who base …

Yesterday, the Stock Market skyrocketed and with it a significant number of Prohost Picks that we keep reminding ourselves are undervalued. The outperformance unveiled the interred strength of firms such as: Illumina (ILMN), Amgen (AMGN) and Vertex (VRTX), the gene therapy firms: RegenxBio (RGNX) and Spark (ONCE), and the gene editing firms: Crispr (CRSP), Intellia (NTLA) and Editas (EDIT), as well as others in the Prohost Portfolio. The rebounding in the …

Playing buy and sell games with the CRISPR gene editing stocks is sometimes based on scientific articles that meant to caution about possible problems or by patents that were given to some Universities and denied it to others and vice versa. Different Universities back different CRISPR gene-editing firms, which constituted a reason for the volatility of the gene-editing stocks. Finally, CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP), Intellia Therapeutics …

ProhostLetter #423 TOMORROW’S THERAPEUTICS TODAY For a more or less fair evaluation of biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms, analysts currently rely for their assessment on criteria that include quarterly financial results, products’ sales revenues, and year over year growth of each and every marketed therapeutic. When it comes to clinical-stage firms, the logic implies that these criteria cannot be relied on for evaluation, as most of …

A Miracle-Like Gene-Editing That People will Sooner or Later Recognize. The Wellcome Sanger Institute’s new findings about CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing is intended to lead to further improvement in the safety of the breakthrough CRISPR gene editing procedure before it is used in clinical practice; the information is not intended to condemn it. Unfortunately, innocent investors got panicky when they heard the Wellcome Sanger findings, which …

The Week in Review #25 When Stocks Plummet for No Relevant Reasons Sometimes investors need to know why some of their stocks plummet when no bad news is broadcast anywhere and when firms announce terrific news promising progressive growth. Yesterday was one of those days where reasons for stocks’ deviant, and probably unwarranted, negative performances must be identified. Let’s have a look at what happened during …

CRISPR Therapeutics, Intellia Therapeutics, and Caribou Biosciences, Inc., announced the news about the granted U.S. Patent No. 10,000,772 (“the ‘772 patent”) by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This patent covers methods of using optimized guide RNA formats (including single guide and dual guide formats) in certain environments, including eukaryotic cells (such as human, animal and plant cells). The optimized formats modify the part of …

Slashing of the CRISPR gene editing companies’ stocks, including CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP), Editas (EDIT) and Intellia (NTLA) is caused by two studies published in Nature Medicine, which revealed that cells whose genes are edited by CRISPR/ Cas9 could develop tumors in treated patients. Nobody could blame those who sold the CRSPR gene editing stocks’ because, although many scientists believe that the cited cause can be overcome and others stated that …

A couple of days following the news that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion on Amgen’s (AMGN) product Prolia® (denosumab) for the treatment of bone loss associated with long-term systemic glucocorticoid therapy, the same Committee recommended a label variation for KYPROLIS® (carfilzomib) with an addition that includes the final overall survival (OS) data from the Phase 3 ASPIRE trial. In the ASPIRE trial, KYPROLIS …

The Week in Review #21 Part 2 THE  MARKET (2) - Our remarks in the past Week in Review included our confidence that the attempts by negative investors to drive the market crazy will not deprive the market from its innate capability to sense and react to the authentic factors it usually reacts to . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to …

The Week in Review #21 Part 1 THE MARKET - Like symphonic orchestras that bring to the listeners’ ears, minds and souls melodies composed by legendary authors, the stock market reflects what’s going on in the world, which would positively or negatively impact the lives and well being of the earth’s residents . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to …

Prohost Letter #420 REAL BREAKTHROUGHS - One Has Already Been Used and the Other Has Extraordinary Promises In  the  NEWS - THE POWER OF CHECKPOINT INHIBITOR IMMUNOTHERAPY WOW It is about the checkpoint inhibitors immunotherapy, which is bringing to the world of cancer a stunning revelation of a combination treatment offering an almost cure for a lung cancer...

A False Reason for Unwarranted Selling of CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing Shares     CRISPRs are bacterial immune systems that contain many defense enzymes such as the Cas9 “molecular scissors,” which scientists have engineered as a powerful DNA-targeting gene-editing tool and created companies specialized in CRISPR gene editing tools. The outstanding revolutionary news, which is wrongly interpreted by Wall Street, which led to a recent selling of the shares of CRISPR gene …

The Week in Review #19 Targeting the Root-­Cause of Diseases - Investing in the Future is Currently the Best Way - Stopping aberrant genes from causing diseases has taken time to move from wishful thinking to reality. Through trial and error, various different approaches have been tested over the years, including attempts at genetic engineering... &nbsp . . . This content is for paid subscribers. …

Prohost Letter #417 Private Lessons - These lessons are overdue and we had to do this homework before we go into further evaluations of our picks and introduction of new companies as we promised in the past issue. We believe that the Prohost readers, the fans and the critics should know how and why we pick our biotech stocks . . . This content is …

THE WEEK IN REVIEW Wall Street As we said in yesterday’s article posted under Today’s Highlights, stocks can plummet at any time, regardless of whether they have the best or the worst grades for their financial or accomplishments reports. Stocks can falter (yet quickly recover) for various reasons, as their prices are decided by thousands of stocks exchanging hands between sellers who need to sell …

About the CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing Patent Shareholders of biotechnology firms specialized in CRISPR gene editing technology are in a state of confusion regarding the technology's patents. The confusion is caused by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) decision to sustain the intellectual property awarded to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. This ruling has caused the stock of the firm Editas (EDIT), which …

Prohost Letter #403 Part 2 Continued From Wednesday Instead of continuing yesterday article about Agenus, we decided to post it all so that the reader can find it in one place. Important changes and additions have been made especially under the headline “Near-­Term Priorities, Possibilities and Catalysts”, which are important to read. Learning More About AGENUS Since its inception, Agenus (AGEN), previously known as Antigenics, …

Another gene editing firm, CRISPR Therapeutics decided to become publicly traded. On Friday, the private firm filed with the SEC planning for a $90 million initial public offering (IPO). CRISPR Therapeutics is headquartered in Switzerland, but also exists in Cambridge. It was cofounded by Emmanuelle Charpentier, who, together with Jennifer Doudna claim discovering CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing recipe. The firm aim is to use CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing …

Pfizer accepted to pay $14 billion in cash to acquire Medivation. It is important for investors to know what Pfizer is after with regard to this acquisition so that investors could sense the current deep-pocketed biopharmaceutical firms’ preferences in selecting their takeover targets. Recognizing the facts behind Pfizer’s decision could also protect investors from being mislead by negative bloggers who, while serving their own agendas, …

EXELIXIS AGAIN They said: Sell EXEL, as no partner is interested in the firm’s FDA approved cabozantinib to date. What really happened: It did not take long for IPSEN to come forward and take the responsibility of marketing cabozantinib abroad and pay $200 million upfront payment to Exelixis. They said: Although the FDA approved Cabometyx (cabozantinib) for advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the drug will …

In the biotech sector, daily stories (news) are not just announced, but mostly edited in ways that project the narrators’ tendencies and wishes rather than the original news. Last week’s headlines comprised positive news from a firm’s drug aimed at treating a chronic progressive disease, muscular dystrophy, which disables children’s by weakening their voluntary and involuntary muscles, while threatening their hearts and lungs and lives. Other headlines …

Regeneron and Intellia to Discover and Develop CRISPR/Cas Therapeutics Moving forward is Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ (REGN) strategy based on strong scientific and technological capability that needs no validation by external validators. The quality, i.e., safety and efficacy, of Regeneron’s approved products and the clinical trial outcomes of the firm’s drugs in late phase trials speak for themselves. Good news from the firm is flooding the media. The most recent …

Prohost Letter #390 COMPANIES USING CRISPR GENE EDITING TOOLS - The Firms Launched with CRISPR Patents Either Pending or Disputed! What Does This Mean? What are these Firms’ Priorities? But First: A Reminder In the last issue, Prohost #389, we pinpointed the gene editing technologies and techniques and demonstrated the difference between gene editing, which is genetic engineering, i.e., making changes in the genes themselves, and antisense …