- ‘Incredible’ gene-editing result in mice inspires plans to treat premature-aging syndrome in children. Base editing, a DNA-changing method originally inspired by CRISPR, successfully corrected the mutation in a mouse model of progeria, in a new study in Nature. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/incredible-gene-editing-result-mice-inspires-plans-treat-premature-aging-syndrome 36 comments science