EDIT - Editas Medicine: Three Strikes And It's Out, Or Third Time's The Charm?
2025-10-14 18:18:10 ET
Gene editing seems easy!
It is exactly what it sounds like. Identify a part of the gene that isn’t right (i.e., mutated). Delete it. And go from there. Or perhaps you add something else to replace what you delete.
It’s analogous to editing written work!
I have to admit editing originally struck me as a traumatic process. That was with regard to essays, term papers, tests, etc. in school. And it really threw me for a loop after I graduated — legal briefs I submitted to bosses on my first law job in the mid-1970s, my first stock comment after I joined Value Line in late 1979....
Editas Medicine: Three Strikes And It's Out, Or Third Time's The Charm?