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Beam makes USD 120M bet; GRAIL and Quest announce the collaboration; Brain organoids mimic infant’s brains; Improvement in T cells to kill cancer

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The gene-editing technologies, which have reached the clinic, CRISPR, zinc finger nucleases, and TALENs, make their edits by nicking DNA at the target site. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Beam aims to make more precise edits with genetic medicines, which employ base-editing. If they eliminated the T cells, the therapy stopped working.

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