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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Made from traditional wood, engineered wood is often seen as a renewable replacement for traditional building materials like steel, cement, glass and plastic. It also has the potential to store carbon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...