Gene-editing has become one of the top investing buzzwords.

All as gene editing show progress in identifying and potentially curing diseases.

Even more impressive, according to Interesting Engineering, “researchers have already identified DNA errors as the cause of nearly 7,000 diseases. Thankfully, the growing world of genome editing could be the ‘spell-checker’ needed to detect and eventually fix these.”

In short, everyone should be excited about the potential here.

Gene Editing Stock No. 1 – Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA)

Intellia Therapeutics, Inc., a genome editing company, focuses on the development of therapeutics. It utilizes a biological tool known as the Clustered, Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/CRISPR associated 9 (CRISPR/Cas9) system.

The NTLA stock just exploded after releasing “interim data from the Phase 1 trial of its collaboration with Regeneron on an experimental therapy for transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) – a protein misfolding disorder,” as noted in a company press release.

“The data showed that for the six people that received a single 0.3 mg/kg dose of NTLA-2001, there was an 87% mean reduction in serum TTR, while there was a maximum 96% serum TTR reduction following a month's treatment,” the company added.