New Company Twelve Bio Aims To Improve On CRISPR Gene-Editing Tech

Cas12a Offers Advantages

Venture capital firm Arix is financing the Copenhangen, Denmark-based biotech, which is looking to play its part in the fast-maturing gene-editing field.

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Gene-editing: Cas12a's small size, high specificity and ability to target sections of DNA are among its potential advantages over Cas9.

A new entrant to the field of CRISPR gene-editing, Copenhagen-based Twelve Bio, has been launched with the help of venture capital firm Arix Bioscience.

Twelve Bio is a spinout from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Protein Research at the University of Copenhagen and...

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