{"id":186085,"date":"2017-04-03T19:48:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T23:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/canopy-acquires-gene-editing-technology-license-st-louis-business-journal\/"},"modified":"2017-04-03T19:48:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T23:48:15","slug":"canopy-acquires-gene-editing-technology-license-st-louis-business-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/gene-medicine\/canopy-acquires-gene-editing-technology-license-st-louis-business-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Canopy acquires gene-editing technology license &#8211; St. Louis Business Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Stunning Contemporary Gem                          <\/p>\n<p>      Dave Smoller co-founded Canopy Biosciences    <\/p>\n<p>      Dilip Vishwanat    <\/p>\n<p>    Canopy Biosciences, a young startup looking to accelerate the    commercialization of life science medical tools and services,    has exclusively licensed a gene-editing technology from    Washington University in St. Louis and Johns Hopkins    University.  <\/p>\n<p>    The company, which raised$2 million from investors earlier    this year, was co-founded by Dave Smoller and    is led by CEO and President Edward    Weinstein. Smoller and Weinstein worked together at    Sigma-Aldrich before the company was sold to Merck KGaA in    November 2015 for $17 billion.  <\/p>\n<p>            Dave Smoller co-founded Canopy Biosciences          <\/p>\n<p>            Dilip Vishwanat          <\/p>\n<p>    Canopy looks to in-license  essentially a collaboration    agreement between two parties in which one company performs    research and development  technologies in the fields of    genetic engineering and personalized medicine.  <\/p>\n<p>    The licensed technology is called Tunr and it targets    translation elongation by introducing consecutive adenosine    nucleotides into a gene coding sequence of interest, according    to a release.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/stlouis\/news\/2017\/04\/03\/canopy-acquires-gene-editing-technology-license.html\" title=\"Canopy acquires gene-editing technology license - St. Louis Business Journal\">Canopy acquires gene-editing technology license - St. Louis Business Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Stunning Contemporary Gem Dave Smoller co-founded Canopy Biosciences Dilip Vishwanat Canopy Biosciences, a young startup looking to accelerate the commercialization of life science medical tools and services, has exclusively licensed a gene-editing technology from Washington University in St. Louis and Johns Hopkins University.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/gene-medicine\/canopy-acquires-gene-editing-technology-license-st-louis-business-journal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gene-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}