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CRISPR was announced in 2012. The first Hepatitis B therapy built on it is only now entering serious trials. That 14-year gap is not a scandal. It is the cost of not killing people with untested medicine, and the real question is which parts of the pipeline we can actually compress.
By Crash Davis · 3 min read
A two-part gene editing system just corrected 3 to 4 times the therapeutic threshold for liver disease in preclinical models. In vivo CRISPR is no longer theoretical. The safety data, though, is still catching up to the engineering.
By Crash Davis · 3 min read
Colossal Biosciences hit a $10 billion valuation engineering woolly mice in a Dallas lab. The CRISPR toolkit they're building is genuinely valuable. The conservation framing around it is not. Here is why that distinction matters.
By Vera Santos · 3 min read
Standard CRISPR therapies are already delivering near-miraculous results for conditions like sickle cell disease. But baby KJ's bespoke therapy, built for his exact mutation and delivered in six months, shows where this is actually heading. The FDA just opened a formal highway for it.
By Crash Davis · 4 min read
Casgevy works. Fifty patients treated globally, $2.2 million per dose, 136 trials running. CRISPR has cleared the highest bar in medicine, and the access problem it created is now the harder engineering challenge.
By Vera Santos · 5 min read