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 ...

A collaboration between scientists at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) and Beam Therapeutics has resulted in a new base editing therapy for Stargardt disease, the most ...

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 ...

Scientists and physicians can better assess precision genome editing technology using a new method made public today by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Significant amounts of time and resources ...

Precision gene editing can be achieved by base editing, nucleotide editing, or editing of small or large gene fragments. The specific mechanisms include various DNA repair pathways. Many precision ...

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 ...

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 ...

A fundamental challenge for cystic fibrosis (CF) gene therapy is ensuring sufficient transduction of airway epithelial cells to achieve therapeutic correction. Gene editing is a method to permanently ...

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 ...