Back in 2016, a group of researchers led by Harvard’s David Liu, PhD, published a paper in Nature that reported the development of base editing. Base editing, they wrote, is “a new approach to genome ...

CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing relies on a guide RNA that binds to a desired DNA sequence and a Cas9 enzyme that cuts both strands of DNA at that site, creating a double-strand break. Scientists edit the ...

Two new studies offer more validation that prime editing and base editing have the potential to permanently fix a gene variant associated with the rare disease phenylketonuria. In two separate papers ...

The Anker Prime power bank and charging base together normally sell for $330. Though right now if you head over to Amazon, you’ll see the site has the bundle knocked down by 25%. A quarter of the ...

Less than 60 minutes after his latest report was published online, Luigi Naldini, MD, PhD, called me to discuss his article, “Genotoxic effects of base and prime editing in human hematopoietic stem ...

Since the development of the base and prime editing technique by David Liu at the Broad Institute, their applications in biomedicine have continued to grow, reaching 17 clinical trials for base ...