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CRSP Shareholder/Stockholder Letter Transcript:

Transformative Gene-Based Medicines
For Serious Human Diseases
2 02 3 AN N UA L R E P O RT

We are rapidly translating the
revolutionary CRISPR technology
into therapies to treat a broad range
of serious human diseases.

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