CRISPR / Gene Editing News2026-10-30Gene Editing Weekly — October 24–30, 2026: HG302 edits DMD in four boys and kills one at the high dose, and the FDA drafts a one-patient approval pathA first-in-human Duchenne editing trial reports muscle editing and a death at the higher dose, the FDA drafts a pathway for individualized editors, and Cellectis quantifies its liver base editor ahead of a China trial.1
CRISPR / Gene Editing News2026-10-23Gene Editing Weekly — October 17–23, 2026: a retrotransposon builds a CAR-T inside a mouse, and China's pathway counts 112 filed projectsThree preclinical papers pushed on delivery, payload size and the editor's own protein scaffold this week, while a Chinese review put the first count on projects filed under the country's pathway for experimental cell and gene therapies.2
CRISPR / Gene Editing News2026-10-16Gene Editing Weekly — October 10–16, 2026: a base editor restores glucose production in GSDIa patients, and a census finds two individualized editing trialsBeam Therapeutics' in vivo base editor restored endogenous glucose production in six patients with glycogen storage disease type Ia, and a census of the clinical trial registry found two individualized editing constructs among 148 gene-editing studies.1
CRISPR / Gene Editing News2026-10-09Gene Editing Weekly — October 3–9, 2026: an in vivo prime editor reaches a patient, Editas clears its first human trial, and Caribou gives up on off-the-shelf CAR-TAn in vivo prime editor reaches its first patient, Editas wins clearance for its first human study, and Caribou stops its off-the-shelf CAR-T programs as capital for ex vivo cell therapy runs out.
CRISPR / Gene Editing News2026-10-02Gene Editing Weekly — September 26–October 2, 2026: a base-editing trade-secrets suit, Germany's first Casgevy treatment, and a second route to fetal hemoglobinBeam sues a Chinese base-editing rival and its U.S. partner over trade secrets, a Berlin hospital gives Germany its first CRISPR treatment, and a new fetal-hemoglobin pathway opens a second route against sickle cell disease.1
CRISPR / Gene Editing News2026-09-25Gene Editing Weekly — September 19–25, 2026: an AI find re-rates the sector, a prime-editing IND, and an epigenetic silencer for hepatitis BA sector-wide selloff on an AI discovery, an FDA clearance that crowds alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency with in vivo editors, and a hepatitis B silencer that methylates viral DNA instead of cutting it.1
CRISPR / Gene Editing News2026-09-18Gene Editing Weekly — September 12–18, 2026: a first-in-disease gene therapy, a rolling IND pilot, and Cellectis's in vivo pivotFayuvi becomes the first approved treatment for Sanfilippo syndrome type A, the FDA opens a rolling IND pilot, and Cellectis, Prime Medicine and Serapha Bio stake their next steps on in vivo editing.
CRISPR / Gene Editing News2026-09-11Gene Editing Weekly — September 5–11, 2026: Intellia enters priority review as multi-ethnic base editing reports 12-month durabilityThis week's briefing tracks the FDA's Priority Review for Intellia's lonvo-z, 12-month base-editing durability in Cell Stem Cell, Editas's CMO hire for EDIT-401, and a Nature probe into trial oversight.
CRISPR / Gene Editing News2026-09-04Gene editing weekly — August 29–September 4, 2026: One-year editing, $400 million runway, and the cost of deliveryThis week’s briefing separates a current-week CTX310 durability report and Intellia financing from three research papers, a China-linked AAV safety debate, and a quiet FDA ledger.2
CRISPR / Gene Editing News2026-08-28Gene Editing Weekly — August 22–28, 2026: PBGENE-DMD enters the clinic as prime assembly stretches the payload envelopeThis week's briefing separates a new Duchenne clinical start from preclinical prime-assembly data, an off-target modeling preprint, and an HHS trial-participation policy submission.2
CRISPR / Gene Editing News2026-08-21Gene Editing Weekly — August 14–21, 2026: FDA's CGT guidance, Genglycos, and the editing quality-control stackThis week's briefing separates FDA's updated cell-and-gene-therapy development guidance and the adjacent GENGLYCOS approval from new editing quality-control, compact-Cas9, and governance signals.
CRISPR / Gene Editing News2026-08-14Gene Editing Weekly — August 7–14, 2026: a clinical edge case, safer editing tools, and Sangamo's asset saleThis week's briefing separates a striking single-patient CRISPR-phage response from human-genome editing, then tracks OptiPrime, UNCOVERseq, PTC's purchase of Sangamo's ST-920, and a quiet FDA editing ledger.