On a special episode (first released on June 20, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: With the advent of CRISPR as a gene editing technology, there are new opportunities to develop breakthrough treatments ...

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Beam Therapeutics develops precision genetic medicines using base editing technology to target serious inherited diseases.

Entrepreneurs say it’s time to safety-test designer baby technology. A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create ...

Qi Biodesign, a company involved in genome-editing technologies, announced that it has completed a $75 million funding round, which includes seed funding and Series Pre-A and Series A stages. Beijing ...

The concept of CRISPR gene-editing is still quite young. Although the discovery of CRISPRs themselves—repeating DNA sequences present in single-celled organisms, such as bacteria—can be traced back to ...

Jeff Bartel is chairman and managing director of Hamptons Group, a private investment and strategic advisory firm headquartered in Miami. Gene editing technology, a major biotechnology advance, is ...

For the first time, a new gene editing technology called base editing was used to modify immune cells and successfully treat a teen with treatment-resistant leukemia. A month afterward, 13-year-old ...

CRISPR is being used in an experimental effort to eliminate the virus that causes AIDS. The gene-editing technology CRISPR has been used to change the genes of human babies, to modify animals, and to ...