Reporter’s Notebook: The Dawn of Disease-Agnostic Gene Editing Therapies – RamaOnHealthcare

Reporter’s Notebook: The Dawn of Disease-Agnostic Gene Editing Therapies

“I’ll end with a little bit of a wild, crazy idea, but I think it’s actually one that has the real potential for the benefit of patients.” The room was stunned when David Liu, PhD, the inventor of the genomic keyboard from base editing and prime editing, said this two-thirds of the way through his February talk at the Precision Medicine World Conference (PMWC) 2025 in Silicon Valley. The entire audience, including those on their phones, became l…

Reporter’s Notebook: The Dawn of Disease-Agnostic Gene Editing Therapies – RamaOnHealthcare

The lab of “genetic surgery” pioneer David Liu, PhD, uses prime editing to build a platform for targeting nonsense mutations driving stop codon