Gene editing is a highly precise and powerful technology that allows scientists to insert, delete, modify or replace DNA bases in living organisms. It has a variety of uses, including correcting disease-causing mutations and improving crops. Tools like CRISPR act as molecular scissors that target specific places in a genome to make these changes. But the technology is not perfect and can accidentally edit the wrong pieces of DNA or RNA.

In research published in Nature, scientists describe a new framework that uses AI to make these tools more accurate. Hoi Yee Chu and Alan S.L. Wong of the University of Hong Kong published a News and Views piece in the same journal on the significance of this research.