Is Gene Editing Already Leaving CRISPR Therapeutics Behind?
In hindsight, one could say the iPhone basically invented the smartphone market with its interactive touch screen, internet-surfing capabilities, app store, and camera. Except it didn't. The LG Prada, released in 2006, had a camera, apps, a web browser, and the same type of touchscreen as the iPhone. LG had the technology right, but another company came along and simply did it better. A similar dynamic might now be playing out in the world of gene editing.
Although there are three main gene-editing tools being used today, CRISPR, which stands for "clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats," has become the most widely used due to its simplicity and versatility. One of the publicly traded companies using CRISPR to develop treatments for diseases is CRISPR Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CRSP). Despite the acceptance of CRISPR-Cas9 as the standard system for gene editing, new methods are being discovered that could make CRISPR Therapeutics' Cas9 methodology the LG Prada of the gene-editing world.
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