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Investors bet big on Feng Zhang’s new startup. It’s out to solve one of gene editing’s most vexing problems.

Por: The Boston Globe Business February 16, 2023

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Months before Feng Zhang met with a trio of investors from GV, the venture capital arm of Google’s parent company Alphabet, the scientist had been dropping hints that his lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was working on something big. When he sat down for dinner at the Liberty Hotel in the summer of 2021, he was finally ready to talk about it.By the time the group finished appetizers, Zhang had convinced the table that he may have... + full article



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