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Genomic Medicine
Genomic medicine is a developing field of medical research that harnesses recent advances in genetics to develop new medicines for diseases. In fact, we are at an inflection point where we are seeing the first real genomic medicines emerge to help patients. Advances in the scientific fields of cell therapy and gene therapy have paved the way for the success of gene editing, which in turn is now expanding and accelerating the development of a new class of genomic medicines.
This field genetically addresses diseases by using gene editing and gene therapy technologies, which are different in a few key ways.
In gene editing, a mutated gene is revised, removed, or replaced at the DNA level. In gene therapy, the effect of a mutation is offset by inserting a “healthy” version of the gene, and the disease-related genes remain in the genome. Both approaches may provide a durable benefit to patients, and both gene therapy and gene editing, alone or in combination, may lend themselves to the development of transformative genomic medicines.
Editas Medicine is working to develop genomic medicines for a range of diseases, many of which do not currently have medicines available. We are a gene editing company, and use the terms “gene” and “genome” editing interchangeably to refer to our CRISPR gene editing technology.