Around 10 million. That’s the number of lives forecasters believe we will lose each year by 2050 as bacteria develop defenses against the drugs we use to fight infections.
Tackling antibiotic resistance, though, ...
The Beacon for CRISPR Cures aims to create a roadmap for rapidly developing genome-editing therapies.
The story of CRISPR in medicine so far has been one of remarkable speed. It ...
Crispr recently marked a major milestone in medicine. But it's not time for a victory lap—the race is just beginning.
By Jennifer Doudna, CRISPR pioneer and Nobel Laureate at the ...
Editing DNA with the same ease as spell-checking a Word document is a scientific holy grail. It would allow debilitating and deadly genetic diseases to not only be treated, ...
In a landmark decision, the Food and Drug Administration Friday approved the first gene-editing treatment to alleviate human illness.
The FDA approved two gene therapies for anyone 12 and older ...
The Food and Drug Administration’s approval on Friday of two groundbreaking gene therapy treatments for sickle cell disease has brought a rare moment of hope and celebration to people with the ...
The gene-editing revolution is jumping from the lab to the marketplace.
The U.S. has approved the world’s first medicine employing Crispr technology, a Nobel Prize-winning discovery that promised a powerful new tool ...
In a major advance, the Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved two gene therapies that target sickle cell disease, one of which is the first commercially available treatment in the United States ...
It was only 11 years ago that scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier first described a new way to edit genes, called CRISPR, in a scientific paper. The discovery is so game-changing ...
When Victoria Gray was still a baby, she started howling so inconsolably during a bath that she was rushed to the emergency room. The diagnosis was sickle-cell disease, a ...
It usually takes time for scientific discoveries in the lab to make their way to the market.
The groundbreaking gene-editing technology known as Crispr, which acts like a molecular pair ...
History just happened.
For the first time, a regulator has cleared a treatment using CRISPR, the gene-editing technology, for patients. The regulator is the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products ...
Technology is all about solving big thorny problems. Yet one of the hardest things about solving hard problems is knowing where to focus our efforts. There are so many urgent ...
Over the ages, scientists have devised medicines to successfully treat thousands of illnesses, but eliminating rare and deadly maladies altogether is a holy grail. Treatments for inherited conditions like ...
Over the ages, scientists have devised medicines to successfully treat thousands of illnesses, but eliminating rare and deadly maladies altogether is a holy grail. Treatments for inherited conditions like ...
I SEE YOU, reader. You drink the probiotic seltzer, with its gut-improving bacteria, and the fiber-filled prebiotic. You regularly consume eclectic fermented foods and burly amounts of kale to ...
Hype springs eternal in medicine, but lately the horizon of new possibility seems almost blindingly bright. “I’ve been running my research lab for almost 30 years,” says Jennifer Doudna, ...
A guide to contemporary doomsday scenarios — from the threats you know about to the ones you never think of.
And here we are at the crux of our existential ...
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.
Last month, Genetic ...
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.
Two ...
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 ...
