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David Liu

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Chemist at the Broad Institute and Harvard. His lab invented base editing in 2016 and prime editing in 2019, techniques that rewrite individual DNA letters without making a full double-strand break, sharply reducing the collateral damage that troubles classical CRISPR-Cas9. Several therapies built on his methods are in clinical trials, including a base-editing treatment for high cholesterol.

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