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Dr. David Liu, a researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, is among the lead inventors of “prime editing,” a new form of the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 that has the potential to correct almost all disease-causing DNA glitches. You can read the full story here. The technology has generated significant enthusiasm in the scientific community, and also prompted questions.
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About the speaker
David R. Liu is the Richard Merkin Professor, director of the Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, and vice chair of the faculty at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator. Liu’s research includes the engineering, evolution, and in vivo delivery of genome editing proteins such as base editors to study and treat genetic diseases; the evolution of proteins with novel therapeutic potential; and the discovery of bioactive synthetic small molecules and synthetic polymers using DNA-templated organic synthesis and DNA-encoded libraries.