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Prime Medicine Launches With $315m To Fund New Approach To Gene Editing

 
• By Alaric DeArment

The company sees its gene-editing technology, which it compares to a DNA “word processor,” as having potentially broad applicability.

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Gene-editing company Prime Medicine launches with $315m in financing from two funding rounds • Source: Shutterstock

Newly launched Prime Medicine foresees its gene-editing technology platform has having potentially even broader utility than other technologies in development, like CRISPR/Cas9 and base editing, and has its eye on four sets of indications to try it in.

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