Four months after a Chinese scientist shocked the world with news that he had intentionally altered the DNA of twin girls, top genetics experts and ethicists are calling for ...
Leading scientists are calling for a global moratorium on editing human genes that can be passed down generations, after the Chinese scientist He Jiankui outraged the international research community ...
Leading scientists have called for a global moratorium on the use of powerful DNA editing tools to make genetically modified children.
The move is intended to send a clear signal to maverick ...
More than a dozen top scientists from seven countries are calling for world governments to adopt a moratorium on what scientists call heritable genome editing.
They’re on a mission to ...
The Chinese scientist who created “CRISPR babies,” He Jiankui, sincerely believed that the research violated neither his country’s laws nor the guidelines of the international scientific community, according to his ...
UC Berkeley announced Tuesday it received a patent for a single-molecule guide RNA that can be used with the Cas-9 enzyme by the gene-editing tool CRISPR in plants, bacteria ...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a new CRISPR-Cas9 patent covering the use of one or multiple single guide RNAs in any cell type to the ...
Today, in honor of International Women’s Day, we want to highlight just a few of the incredible women WIRED has written about over the years, whose work breaks boundaries, ...
Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna worked in an obscure area of biology — how bacteria fight viral infections — when she helped make a discovery that could change life on ...
CRISPR Cas9 has been described as the greatest biological breakthrough in decades. The hopes resting on this gene editing technology are immense - this week a Swiss drug company ...
No one needs to remind Jennifer Doudna about the power of CRISPR, the precision genome-editing technology she codeveloped. CRISPR “gives us a way to ultimately control the evolution of any ...
There certainly was reason for celebration at UC Berkeley on Feb. 8, when the U.S. patent office announced it would award UC a key patent for CRISPR, a groundbreaking technology ...
Powerful gene-editing tool could help to diagnose illnesses such as Lassa fever early and rein in the spread of infection.
An epidemic of Lassa fever in Nigeria that has killed ...
It's the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February. This day is a reminder that women and girls play a critical role in science and ...
It has taken nearly six years, detours for bitter legal challenges, and tens of millions of dollars in legal fees, but the foundational CRISPR-Cas9 patent for which the University ...
The battle between university powerhouses over who gets the credit for inventing the breakthrough gene-editing technology CRISPR could heat up again, according to a lawyer for the University of ...
The University of California (UC) has received good news on a patent for the invention of the genome editor known as CRISPR—and it likely moves a fierce legal war ...
The University of California, Berkeley, and its partners in developing CRISPR gene editing will receive the patent at the heart of an intellectual property dispute between the Berkeley team ...
(Reuters) - The University of California will soon be granted a potentially valuable patent on the revolutionary gene-editing technology known as CRISPR, according to a document filed by the ...
Young scientists collaborating with CRISPR impresario Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, generally don’t envision mucking about with groundwater teeming with all manner of microscopic beasts. But ...
CRISPR gene-editing technology co-inventor Jennifer Doudna addressed the opportunities and challenges of editing genomes in a Thursday conversation with political science and ethics professor Rob Reich and genetics professor Kelly Ormond.
“The ...
In August 2012, University of California, Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna and colleagues published an article in the journal Science titled “A Programmable Dual-RNA—Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity.” Though the ...
Some U.S. researchers knew of a Chinese scientist’s intentions to implant edited embryos but were unable to stop him. Now scientific institutions are trying to devise global safeguards.
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In 2019, we can expect accelerating scientific research and practical advances using CRISPR-Cas9—a tool that allows scientists to easily change an organism’s DNA—towards cures for genetic diseases, ...
From the debut of a giant rocket and the discovery of an underground lake on Mars to reef-repairing robots and the next steps toward a working hyperloop, the past year has been a momentous one for ...
Few seemed more surprised by the tide of outrage unleashed by the claim that the first gene-edited babies had been created with the revolutionary lab tool called CRISPR than ...
Sometimes the future arrives in waves, advancing abruptly and then withdrawing. Last week, a Chinese researcher named He Jiankui announced that he had successfully altered the genetic code of ...
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 ...
Speaking at a genome summit in Hong Kong, He Jiankui defended his claim that he created the world's first gene-edited babies using CRISPR. The tool's co-inventor, Jennifer Doudna, shares ...
Jennifer Doudna @doudna_lab, the co-inventor of CRISPR says she’s “horrified” and "disgusted" with how her work has been used to create gene-edited babies #CRISPRBabies #GeneEditSummit pic.twitter.com/WULlCT8zzv
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A Chinese researcher’s claim that he successfully modified the genes of human embryos may force the country to make a stark choice about the future of its burgeoning biotechnology ...
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, ...
Last year, Jennifer Doudna, one of the pioneers of the gene-editing technique known as CRISPR, said, “I’ve mentally prepared myself for the day when I open my inbox or answer my ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
This story begins nearly four billion years ago, when the Earth was just another rock in just another solar system. In a pool of sludge on that rock, something astonishing ...
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, ...
Sarah Montague speaks to biochemist Jennifer Doudna. Crispr Cas9 has been described as the greatest biological breakthrough in decades. It is a gene editing tool and the hopes that ...
Episode two of Vox’s Netflix show Explained tackles designer DNA.
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Specialists in the field discuss the high stakes and ethical controversies of gene editing.
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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, ...
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At the age of 12, Jennifer Doudna read James Watson’s The Double Helix and got hooked on science in general and genetics in particular. Four decades later, she is a molecular ...
CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., has co-founded a new company, Mammoth Biosciences, that aims to democratize gene-editing technology by developing a platform that the company and its partners may ...
Genetics pioneer Jennifer Doudna has launched the first commercial Crispr platform for detecting disease-causing DNA.
In 2011, biologists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier published a landmark paper introducing the world ...
This week the USDA announced it has no plans to regulate gene-editing technologies like Crispr, opening the door to a boom in designer foods.
For years now, the US Department ...
In this web exclusive, biochemist Jennifer Doudna talks with Mo Rocca about how her childhood curiosity was nourished - by books and by the natural world around her growing ...
‘The technology has accelerated the pace of modern research almost exponentially, shaping the future of both medicine and agriculture'
I still remember my first encounter with DNA. We were doing ...
Scientists are harnessing the same technology behind the powerful gene-editing tool CRISPR to develop cheap devices that can quickly diagnose infections. These systems, described in new research, have the ...
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 ...
Scientists hacked the machinery of cellular warfare to splice genes. Now they’ve found a way to guard against it, too.
An arms race is playing out inside your body. It’s ...
Stay on target. That’s the mantra you hear in labs and biotech companies around the world as they snip away at DNA. All the techniques for gene editing—from the ...
Over the past decade, scientists have developed what was once just the subject of dystopian fiction: gene editing technology.
It's known as CRISPR. Jennifer Doudna, a professor of molecular and ...
