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CRISPR's bottleneck is delivery, not the editors

"This is especially an issue in clinical medicine where being able to edit brain cells, heart cells or muscle cells has incredible potential but right now we don't really have the tools to introduce the editors into those cells," Doudna said. "We have the editors; we just don't know how to get them where they need to go."

at the CNBC Global Evolve Summit in mid-June

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Jennifer DoudnaInnovative Genomics Institute · Board member

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CRISPR gene editing, which slices DNA to treat diseases, had its first-ever systemic delivery in a human body. Jennifer Doudna, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for her work on CRISPR, called ...

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