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The Scientist Rewriting DNA, And The Future Of Medicine [Barron's]

Beam Therapeutics Inc. (BEAM) 
Company Research Source: Barrons
A professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Liu was awarded a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences on Saturday for developing two transformative technologies: one already improving the lives of patients with severe genetic diseases, the other poised to reshape medicine in the years ahead. He spoke with AFP ahead of the Los Angeles ceremony for the prestigious Silicon Valley-founded award. He will receive $3 million for his work on "base editing" and "prime editing," and plans to donate most of it to support his charitable foundation. "The ability to change a DNA sequence of our choosing into a new sequence of our choosing is a fundamentally very powerful capability," the 51-year-old said, foreseeing uses not just in human medicine but areas like developing more nutritious or disease-resistant crops. DNA is made up of four chemical "letters" -- the nucleotide bases A, G, T and C. Mutations in this sequence cause thousands of human diseases, yet until recently, gene e Show less Read more
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