In late 2021, Amber Salzman interviewed for a job that she had no intention of taking. A relatively new start-up company, called Epicrispr Biotechnologies, was looking for a chief executive, and it ...

Genome editing lets scientists rewrite DNA, the instruction manual inside every living cell, with a precision that was unthinkable a generation ago. Technologies such as CRISPR have made this almost ...

Sangamo Therapeutics, a pioneering gene editing biotech company in the Bay Area, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and agreed to sell some of its programs and platforms to Eli Lilly and ...