Scientists for the first time have successfully edited genes in human embryos to repair a common and serious disease-causing mutation, producing apparently healthy embryos, according to a study published ...
After Jennifer Doudna and other scientists improved the technology known as CRISPR to edit human genomes, a long-awaited, and sometimes feared, milestone arrived.
For the first time in human existence, ...
Company Expands Leadership Team With Seasoned Industry Executives Christopher Dawes and David M. Joyner.
HAYWARD, Calif., July 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Silver, the maker of SilvaClean™ Antimicrobial Treatment, today announced the ...
New Patent Expands Company's Antimicrobial Technologies Intellectual Property Portfolio and New Continuing Education Course Provides Professional Development.
HAYWARD, Calif., July 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Silver, the maker of SilvaClean™ Antimicrobial Treatment, today ...
Some of the greatest benefactors of our species are not the recognized do-gooders but those paid to satisfy their curiosity: the scientists. Such pure and unsullied inquiry has yielded ...
Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. Not, that is, until the spring of 2015, when ...
There’s a well-to-do couple thinking about having children. They order a battery of genetic tests to ensure that there’s nothing untoward lurking in their genomes. And they discover that ...
Jennifer Doudna was sitting in her UC Berkeley office when she got the first call from a reporter asking what she thought about scientists using Crispr to modify embryos. ...
Dr. Jennifer Doudna gave a talk at Google ZeitgeistMinds titled: "Re-writing the Language of Life: Impacts and Challenges of DNA Editing"
Jennifer Doudna is the award-winning co-inventor of CRISPR-Cas9 gene ...
Facing a breast-cancer survivor, a doctor grapples with the implications of new gene-editing recommendations.
A few days ago, I had just stepped off a podium at a cancer conference when ...
Company Expands Leadership Team With Infection Prevention and Control Expert Sue Barnes
HAYWARD, Calif., Feb. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Silver, the maker of SilvaClean®, today announced the appointment of Sue Barnes to the company's ...
In case you haven’t heard enough about Wednesday’s CRISPR patent ruling, we decided to tally up the winners in another court: the world of scientific prizes.
Turns out, it’s not ...
For more than a year, 22 of the world’s leading geneticists, bioethicists, physicians, and legal scholars have been wrestling with thorny questions posed by the revolutionary advances in scientists’ ...
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded the Japan Prize today for their invention of the revolutionary gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9, which has swept into research labs around ...
The BBVA Foundation has bestowed its Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Biomedicine category on Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna and Francisco Martínez Mojica, for igniting “the revolution in biology permitted by ...
Company Expands Leadership Team With Experienced Industry Executive Josh McQueen.
HAYWARD, Calif., Jan. 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Silver, the maker of SilvaClean®, today announced the appointment of Josh McQueen as an Advisor.
Mr. McQueen ...
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has awarded the 2016 Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics (a sum of USD 200,000) to Jennifer Doudna, Professor ...
SilvaClean® provides a new standard of textile care to more than 330 student-athletes at Division I NCAA sports program
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Applied Silver, the maker of ...
Biochemist Jennifer Doudna discusses cutting-edge DNA technology that enables the editing of the human genome. It also adds to a growing list of current ethical issues faced by researchers.
Growing ...
SilvaClean's continuous antimicrobial action drives a new standard of care for textile cleanliness
A peer-reviewed study titled "Reduction in bacterial contamination of hospital textiles by a novel silver based laundry ...
Kathy Niakan's laboratory at London's Francis Crick Institute is the size of a walk-in closet, but between its walls she's working on one of the most expansive frontiers ever ...
SilvaClean and CLS deliver 99.9% infection control with cost savings to Northern California healthcare facilities.
HAYWARD, Calif., June 2, 2016 - Applied Silver, the maker of SilvaClean®, today announced a ...
New gene-editing technology gives scientists the ability to wipe out the carriers of malaria and the Zika virus. But should they use it?
To the naked eye, the egg of ...
What will it be like to be human a century from now? Will 100- or even 120-year lifespans be commonplace as disease is tamed by gene editing and precision ...
Gene Sleuth
When scientists mapped the human genome in 2001, it marked the start of a new scientific era. Now, the real excitement—and power—in genetics lies in manipulating the genome ...
She revolutionized genetic research
More than 10,000 incurable pathologies are caused by simple genetic abnormalities. The genetic editing technology developed by the pair she has formed with the French Emmanuelle ...
The work: In 2012 Dr. Charpentier and Dr. Doudna published the description of a revolutionary new genome editing technology that uses an engineered single-guide RNA together with the DNA-cleaving ...
Professor Jennifer Doudna was the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Laureate 2016 for reinventing genetic research.
There are over 10,000 incurable conditions caused by single genetic defects. The gene editing ...
