BEIJING — First it was a proposal to transplant a head to a new body. Then it was the world’s first cloned primates. Now it is genetically edited babies.
Those recent scientific ...
On Sunday, a scientist stirred major controversy by claiming that the world's first genetically edited babies were recently born in China. The scientist, Jiankui He, claims to have used ...
In response to ongoing developments related to claims that the world’s first genetically edited babies have been born in China, Dr. Jennifer Doudna, professor of chemistry and molecular & ...
Delaney Van Riper was exhausted. It was the summer of 2017 and she’d spent the previous day touring UC Santa Cruz’s cliffside campus, getting her student paperwork in order, ...
On Friday, November 16, 2018, the Science History Institute hosted its annual Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture to a sold-out audience. This year’s lecturer was Jennifer Doudna, a biochemist who ...
Having established partnerships with World Courier and Deloitte recently, Vineti has now formed another one with Quick Specialized Healthcare Logistics, part of the Quick International express-delivery firm. Vineti, based in San ...
In the growing field of personalized cell and gene therapies, supporting systems and supply chains need to be taken as seriously as the science. Today, two leaders in cell ...
A deep look at how technology plays a role in the increasingly common approach of personalizing treatments for individuals. Panelists include Jay Shendure, a professor of genome sciences at the ...
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Two years after biochemist Jennifer Doudna helped introduce the world to the gene-editing tool known as Crispr, a 14-year-old from New ...
The Rockefeller University has announced that Jennifer Doudna will receive this year’s Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, a major international accolade honoring outstanding women scientists. Doudna is a professor of chemistry ...
Vineti, Inc., the leading digital traceability and orchestration solution for cell and gene therapies, and World Courier, a part of AmerisourceBergen and a global leader in specialty logistics, today ...
Vineti Inc. and Deloitte have struck a deal aimed at making complex cell- and gene-therapy procedures more transparent.
Drug developers are developing a growing number of cell and gene therapies. ...
The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience, given every other year by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Kavli Foundaion, was awarded this year to Jennifer Doudna and ...
What would biohacking, entrepreneurship and CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing mean for an unregulated IVF industry?
Using CRISPR to gene edit human embryos has already been done for research, but so far ...
Having a fast and easy way to cut out and replace genes could revolutionise areas of biology as diverse as medicine and agriculture. And the discovery of the gene ...
Like any self-respecting farmer, Zachary Lippman was grumbling about the weather. Stout, with close-cropped hair and beard, Lippman was standing in a greenhouse in the middle of Long Island, ...
Sometimes the future shows up so fast it hits us in the face, like a brick wall in a VR headset. Other times the miraculous promises of technology—the rearrangement ...
For $150, you can buy a Crispr kit online and use it to engineer heartier gut bacteria in your kitchen. That’s thrilling, but the technology is giving Jennifer Doudna, ...
Academy Honors 19 for Major Contributions to Science
WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences will honor 19 individuals with awards in recognition of their extraordinary scientific achievements in a ...
In 2012, Jennifer Doudna, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, coauthored a seminal paper that described how CRISPR-Cas9, a natural defense system found in bacteria, could be ...
CRISPR’s breakthrough made headlines. But are we ready to engineer designer babies?
Gene editing made great strides this month when scientists reported success using a technique called CRISPR — Clustered Regularly Interspaced ...
For their roles in the creation of a remarkable gene editing system that has been called the “discovery of the century,” five researchers have been announced as the recipients ...
Earlier this week, a team of scientists, led by a researcher at Oregon Health and Science University, published a paper showing it's possible to alter human embryo DNA to ...
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 ...
