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The 2020 Nobel Laureate shares her thoughts on the first decade of CRISPR genome editing, where the technology is heading next, and what it needs to get there.
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From the philosophers whose moral imagination pushes the boundaries of what is possible to the activists making the world a better and healthier place on the ground, from the ...
The following is an excerpt of The Atlantic opinion editorial by CRISPR co-inventor and Nobel Prize-winner Dr. Jennifer Doudna.
CRISPR is changing the world - but it can do more.
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CRISPR is a family of DNA sequences found in the genomes of prokaryotic organisms such as bacteria and archaea. These sequences are derived from DNA fragments of viruses called ...
Just a decade after Crispr was invented, the first drug to make use of the revolutionary gene-editing technology will be with regulators by the end of the year, with ...
It’s entirely possible, maybe even likely, that during some slow day at the lab early in her career, Jennifer Doudna, in a moment of private ambition, daydreamed about making ...
Jennifer Doudna was staring at a computer screen filled with a string of As, Cs, Ts, and Gs—the letters that make up human DNA—and witnessing a debilitating genetic disease ...
On June 28, 2012, a joint press release went out from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announcing a new paper in Science from an ...
The gene-editing tool has transformed the study of human disease, but before it can revolutionize treatments, researchers will need to solve three basic problems.
Ten years ago this week, a report of ...
The gene-editing technology has led to innovations in medicine, evolution and agriculture — and raised profound ethical questions about altering human DNA.
Ten years ago this week, Jennifer Doudna and ...
Ever since the draft of the human genome became available in 2001, there has been a nagging question about the genome’s “dark matter”—the parts of the map that were ...
Innovative Genomics Institute Founder, Nobel Laureate, and CRISPR co-discoverer Jennifer Doudna joins Emily Chang to discuss the future of the CRISPR technology and its commercialization, as well as the ...
Over four decades as a journalist, I’ve covered a lot of disasters, occasionally in person but more often from the comfort of a cubicle, taking feeds from reporters in the field ...
Sixth Street Chief Science Adviser and Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna, co-founder of the CRISPR genome editing technology, and Sixth Street Vice Chairman and Partner R. Martin Chavez join Emily ...
New innovations in gene and stem cell technology have the power to shape ecosystems and even change humanity. In this episode of NPR's TED Radio Hour hour, Jennifer Doudna ...
According to most accounts, Doudna’s history-altering discovery started over coffee with Jillian Banfield, a University of California microbiologist who spends her field seasons knee-deep in caves and abandoned mines ...
A cup of tea in 2006 changed genetic engineering forever. Jill Banfield, a University of California at Berkeley ecosystem scientist and 1999 MacArthur Foundation fellow had become curious in ...
A new crop of biotechs is looking to either improve CRISPR or develop new gene-editing techniques — and 2022 may be a crucial year in proving their value.
For all ...
2022 will be a critical year of execution for the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR. Several biotechs are advancing into human clinical trials, and the results could show the ...
Scientists are a cautious bunch, fond of a caveat even when describing their own research. “Our favourite expressions are ‘Yes, but…’ and ‘On the other hand…’ and ‘It remains ...
CRISPR is the latest and most powerful technique for changing the genetic code of living things. This method of gene editing is already showing great promise in treating people ...
Scientists have discovered DNA sequences in wetland soil that are unlike anything ever found and which could have “important and unanticipated climate implications,” according to a new preprint study co-authored by ...
Last year, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier became the first all-woman team to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work developing CRISPR-Cas9, the gene-editing technology. The technology ...
Patrick Doherty had always been very active. He trekked the Himalayas and hiked trails in Spain.
But about a year and a half ago, he noticed pins and needles in ...
The gene editor CRISPR excels at fixing disease mutations in lab-grown cells. But using CRISPR to treat most people with genetic disorders requires clearing an enormous hurdle: getting the ...
Digital data related to Nobel Prize-winning inventions for gene editing and cancer immunotherapy will be sold connected to non-fungible tokens next week, a novel way for the University of ...
How much will someone be willing to pay for a few pages of quarter-century-old bureaucratic university paperwork that have been turned into a blockchain-encoded piece of digital art?
Berkeley announced ...
Tory Burch has helped thousands of women entrepreneurs through her eponymous foundation and its education programs, but very few recipients of her coveted one-year business fellowship have founded biotech ...
Fireside chats have become a staple of pandemic-era virtual events. The reasons are clear: they offer a glimpse into an otherwise private conversation and it’s entertaining to listen to ...
Last year, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier became the first all-woman team to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work developing CRISPR-Cas9, the gene-editing technology. The technology ...
In this latest "Bloomberg Studio 1.0," host Emily Chang sits down with CRISPR co-inventor and 2020 Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Jennifer Doudna. They discuss her groundbreaking work on DNA, ...
The pandemic year has been marked by so much tragedy, but I am heartened by what scientific innovation and collaboration have achieved to help move our society forward.
Last March, ...
When Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry last year, there was no black-tie ceremony in Sweden. Because of the pandemic, she picked up the medal in her backyard.
Correspondent ...
When last year’s Nobel prize for chemistry was awarded to biochemist Jennifer Doudna and microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier for their work in developing the technique of gene editing known as Crispr-Cas9 ...
In the spring of 2014, Jennifer Doudna had a nightmare.
The Berkeley biochemist had helped to invent a powerful new technology that made it possible to edit the human genome—an ...
In The Code Breaker, Walter Isaacson recounts the drama of the discovery in a digestible narrative that tackles the promise and the peril of Crispr.
For Isaacson, an accomplished storyteller of ...
Where do you take your career after you’ve won all of science’s biggest prizes? In this episode of Stereo Chemistry, C&EN executive editor Lisa Jarvis sits down with Nobel ...
The response to Covid-19 has been momentous but discoveries in AI, diet, conservation, space and beyond, show the power of science to improve the world post-pandemic
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In February, Jennifer Doudna, one of America’s most prominent scientists, was still focused on CRISPR—the gene-editing tool that she’d co-discovered and that won her a Nobel Prize in October. But ...
2020 Chemistry Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna joins Fareed for a primer on CRISPR, a technology that allows for precise gene editing.
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When Jennifer Doudna woke up, she realised her phone had been buzzing on and off for some time. It was still dark outside. In fact, her phone told her ...
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method ...
A new company called Scribe Therapeutics founded by two former members of CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna’s UC Berkeley genetics lab (alongside Doudna herself) launched on Tuesday, debuting a platform designed ...
Three years ago, Jennifer Doudna gathered with two postdocs and a fellow biochemist around a circular table on the second floor of UC Berkeley’s Energy Biosciences building, where they ...
Jennifer Doudna, one of the pioneers of the gene-editing technique known as CRISPR, thinks the biotech tool could be an essential one for combating COVID-19 and future pandemics. Due to ...
Nearly two years after the birth of the first “CRISPR babies” stunned the world, an international group of experts on Thursday warned such human experimentation — in which the DNA ...
It’s still too soon to try to make genetically edited babies because the science isn’t advanced enough to ensure safety, says an international panel of experts who also mapped ...
These tiny, ancient predators do more than cause pandemics.
Host Kenneth Cukier and science editor Geoff Carr investigate how viruses have shaped the world. Evolutionary biologist David Enard explains how ...
The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating the development of CRISPR-based tests for detecting disease — and highlighting how gene-editing tools might one day fight pandemics, one of its discoverers, Jennifer ...
A new Innovative Genomics Institute study is underway at the University of California, Berkeley to find out whether a saliva test can detect and identify asymptomatic carriers of the ...
With the start of school fast approaching, colleges and universities across the U.S. are rushing to rejigger the higher-education experience for the coronavirus era. Many are seeking ways to ...
Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, have begun trials of a new spit test for COVID-19 infections developed by the university’s Innovative Genomics Institute.
Since the disease was first ...
California is experiencing a surge in reported cases of COVID-19. Three months into the pandemic tests remain scarce.
Early on, at UC Berkeley, Dr. Jennifer Doudna who co-discovered CRISPR gene editing ...
I have always loved mystery stories. Maybe that explains my fascination with science, which is humanity’s attempt to understand the longest-running mystery we know: the origin and function of ...
Exploring the COVID-19 crisis and the way forward.
Treating a disease that affects people of all ages and health backgrounds in different ways is no simple feat. ABC News’ Diane ...
When a stay-at-home order in March all but closed the revered labs of the gene-editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna, her team at the University of California, Berkeley dropped everything and started testing ...
In his 20 years in and out of homelessness, Ollie Harris, 69, has seen a lot of things. But what happened on a recent Friday was new.
Sitting outside his ...
