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• Editas & BlueRock enter in to research collaboration to develop engineered cell therapies/ allogeneic pluripotent stem cell (PSC) lines by the combination of Editas’ CRISPR & BlueRock’s iPSC in oncology & neurology- cardiology and immunology respectively
• According to cross-licensing agreement- BlueRock to get non-exclusive & IPR rights for Editas Medicine’s CRISPR technology and Editas to get non-exclusive & IPR rights for BlueRock’s iPSC and cell differentiation technology. The companies will also receive development- regulatory and commercial milestones & royalties on global sales of products
• Editas’ CRISPR is a genome editing technology utilizes Cas9 or Cpf1 protein to repair broken genes. BlueRock’s iPSC is the basis of CELL+GENE platform used to replace damaged or degenerated tissue to restore or regenerate lost function

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