David Cox and Omar Abudayyeh are two of three co-first authors on a paper recently published in Science on RNA editing using CRISPR-Cas13. They suggest that this technology will benefit future research endeavors and has the potential to correct disease-causing mutations.

Read more about this news on TheScientist.com here: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/50719/title/RNA-Editing-Possible-with-CRISPR-Cas13/

This story is also featured on MIT News here: http://news.mit.edu/2017/researchers-engineer-crispr-edit-single-rna-letters-human-cells-1015