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Headed by former SpaceX engineers, Synthego Corp. has put its engineering prowess to work by creating an automated manufacturing process that can pump out nearly pure batches of the first fully synthetic guide RNAs on an industrial scale.

Guide RNAs are a key component of the CRISPR gene editing machinery, normally produced by biological methods, whose role is to target the nuclease, usually Cas9, to the genomic site of interest...