{"id":221986,"date":"2025-09-17T00:14:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/ai-powered-crispr-could-lead-to-faster-gene-therapies"},"modified":"2025-09-17T00:14:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:14:53","slug":"ai-powered-crispr-could-lead-to-faster-gene-therapies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/ai-powered-crispr-could-lead-to-faster-gene-therapies","title":{"rendered":"AI-powered CRISPR could lead to faster gene therapies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-powered-crispr-could-lead-to-faster-gene-therapies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stanford Medicine researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool to help scientists better plan gene-editing experiments. The technology, CRISPR-GPT, acts as a gene-editing \u201ccopilot\u201d supported by AI to help researchers\u2014even those unfamiliar with gene editing\u2014generate designs, analyze data and troubleshoot design flaws.<\/p>\n<p>The model builds on a tool called CRISPR, a powerful gene-editing technology used to edit genomes and develop therapies for <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/genetic+diseases\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">genetic diseases<\/a>. But training on the tool to design an experiment is complicated and time-consuming\u2014even for seasoned scientists. CRISPR-GPT speeds that process along, automating much of the experimental design and refinement. The goal, said Le Cong, Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology and genetics, who led the technology\u2019s development, is to help scientists produce lifesaving drugs faster.<\/p>\n<p>The paper is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41551-025-01463-z\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford Medicine researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool to help scientists better plan gene-editing experiments. The technology, CRISPR-GPT, acts as a gene-editing \u201ccopilot\u201d supported by AI to help researchers\u2014even those unfamiliar with gene editing\u2014generate designs, analyze data and troubleshoot design flaws. The model builds on a tool called CRISPR, a powerful gene-editing technology used [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}