Agilis Biotherapeutics and Intrexon to Pursue Transformative Therapies for Rare Genetic Disease

Agilis Biotherapeutics and Intrexon to Pursue Transformative Therapies for Rare Genetic Disease. NEW YORK and GERMANTOWN, Md., Dec. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire.

Agilis Biotherapeutics, LLC, a synthetic biology-based company focused on rare genetic diseases, and Intrexon Corporation (NYSE: XON), a leader in synthetic biology, announced today an Exclusive Channel Collaboration (ECC) to develop DNA-based therapeutics for Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA), a rare genetic neurodegenerative disease.