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34 Katrine Bosley

CEO, EDITAS MEDICINE

For moving at breakthrough speed

There’s no cure for Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a retinal disease that results in severe vision loss at a young age. Its cause is well understood, though: a genetic mutation. If you could find a way to cut out that gene and replace it with a “clean” version, you could cure it. You might also be able to apply the same method to thousands of other diseases caused by gene mutations.

Five years ago, this was a medical pipe dream. But if

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