GEN Magazine

Volume 43, Issue No. 05, May 2023

May 2023 cover

It’s time to grease the wheels of industry—so declares anyone who wants cell and gene therapies produced in greater volume. To date, these therapies have been artisanal products, much to the frustration of developers, manufacturers, clinicians, and (most of all) patients. Fortunately, cell and gene therapy assembly lines are being assembled thanks to innovations in low-volume analytics, vector optimization, bioreactor control, and workflow automation. All of these developments are discussed in the May issue of GEN, which also considers how the image of fast-turning wheels is especially apt for synbio-powered biomanufacturing. There, the whole idea is to set up iterative design–build–test–learn cycles. To keep these wheels spinning, synbio startups are using AI-powered software to drive automated laboratory evolution. Finally, the May issue of GEN reports on the pharma industry’s RSV vaccines, the antibody industry’s bispecific constructs, gene editing’s clinical progress, and mass spec’s proteomics-friendly turn.

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Gene Therapy Imperative Optimizes Manufacturing to Keep Pace with Market Development

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Cell Therapy Manufacturing Grapples with Scale-Up

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RNA Therapies Small Beginnings to Big Opportunities

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Synbio Startups Tap Evolution, Prep Biomanufacturing Flows

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Multiple Vaccine Technologies Converge on Respiratory Syncytial Virus

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Immunotherapy for Cancer A Look Back and A Look Ahead

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Bispecific Antibodies Expose Tumors to New Lines of Attack

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Molecular Scissors Are Making the Cut … in Clinical Trials

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A Better Telescope Gazing at the Transcriptome

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Mass Spec Proteomics Offers Less Pain, More Gain

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A Functional Cell Biology Company Is Formed

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Preparing for the Next Pandemic

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Adding Consistency to Gene Therapy Manufacturing

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Moving Beyond Automating Synthetic Biology to Enable Multiomic Workflows

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Overcoming Challenges in Obtaining Plasmids

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Overcoming Obstacles in Gene Therapy Manufacturing

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PanOmics Approach Takes Drug Discovery to the Next Level

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AACR News: mRNA Vaccine Added to Immunotherapy Reduces Melanoma Recurrence

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