Scientists and physicians can better assess precision genome editing technology using a new method made public today by St.

Both CBEs and ABEs have been extensively engineered to improve their efficiency, specificity, and targeting range, enabling a wide variety of base pair conversions across the genome. Base editing can ...

In this talk in GEN’s “The State of CRISPR & Genome Editing” virtual summit, originally broadcast on June 11, 2025, Alexis Komor, PhD, Associate Professor at University of California San Diego and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Juergen Eckhardt leads Bayer’s impact investment unit, Leaps by Bayer. Dr. David Liu, pictured with former lab members Holly Rees ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich in Basel report they have used CRISPR-Cas technology to decipher how mutations in a cell’s genome affect its function. With their new approach, the researchers can generate ...

A schematic showing the cytosine base editing intermediate and the various outcomes that can occur when the UNG protein is active. You may have seen it in the news recently: a baby in Pennsylvania ...

You may have seen it in the news recently: a baby in Pennsylvania with a rare genetic disorder was healed with a personalized treatment that repaired his specific genetic mutation. The treatment was ...

A Beam Therapeutics gene-editing therapy designed to fix a mutation at the root of a rare liver protein deficiency now has early signs of efficacy along with safety data that ease some concerns about ...

Beam Therapeutics’ experimental gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease now has its first cut of patient data showing signs of treating the rare blood disorder in a way that could differentiate ...

Point mutations in the lamin A (LMNA) gene cause several human diseases, ranging from congenital muscular dystrophy to premature aging, collectively known as laminopathies, which affect skeletal ...