Research Daily Summary
Research Daily Summary: What Happened on October 20, 2026
ALTER edits RNA more efficiently than two Cas13 tools in cells
The editor uses engineered human Argonaute 2 and showed similar or lower off-target editing in comparisons with CURE and RESCUE.
Today in brief
In HEK293T cells, the RNA editor ALTER produced 1.9 times the average C-to-U editing of the Cas13 editors CURE and RESCUE, with similar or lower off-target editing.1