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Moderna Inc. will collaborate with privately owned Life Edit Therapeutics Inc. under an agreement to discover and develop mRNA gene-editing therapies, the companies said on Wednesday.

Development-stage biotech company Omega Therapeutics announced Thursday that its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for its hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) candidate, OTX-2002, has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

At the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)’s annual meeting this weekend, BioNTech and Dr. Vinod Balachandran, M.D. of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, presented preliminary Phase I data of its BNT122, which it is evaluating with Genentech (Roche) in pancreatic cancer.

To bolster the increased demand for mRNA therapies, Germany’s Evonik Industries, in partnership with the U.S. government, is investing more than $200 million to build a lipid manufacturing facility in the United States.