STAT+: With genome-editing companies’ stock booming, Beam Therapeutics seizes its moment

Beam Therapeutics, a company focused on genome editing, is in a strange situation.

The firm’s stock price has roughly quadrupled since the fall, and not because of pivotal data or an affirmational partnership but rather because of a broad and quite likely temporary boom for companies involved in editing DNA. But unlike some of its contemporaries, Beam isn’t letting its moment go to waste.

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