{
  "id": 3525970,
  "title": "An uncertain future for Aurora, the first startup dedicated to custom CRISPR therapies",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/an-uncertain-future-for-aurora-the-first-startup-dedicated-to-custom",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-26T14:24:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Endpoints News",
    "slug": "endpoints-news",
    "url": "https://endpoints.news/an-uncertain-future-for-aurora-the-first-startup-dedicated-to-custom-crispr-therapies/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Aurora Therapeutics, the first company that focused on creating bespoke gene editing treatments, has laid off several staff members and stopped its lead program. The company was using CRISPR base editing to fix mutations that ...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}