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, ...
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.
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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 ...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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If your only CRISPR tool is an ordinary Cas9 enzyme, you might imagine that every genome editing problem has the same solution, a blunt double-strand break. Fortunately, ordinary Cas9 ...
Jennifer Doudna will be the first to tell you that she didn’t invent CRISPR, but she did help start the CRISPR revolution. In 2012, she was part of a ...
Jennifer Doudna wears her responsibility lightly. The scientist who co-discovered Crispr does not appear to be weighed down by the burden of her creation: the revolutionary gene-editing technology that ...
CRISPR, the breakthrough method for editing genes, has the potential to improve our lives. But one of its inventors warns us scientists may be tempted to change life itself ...
It started out as “sort of a stupid thing to do”, recalls Joe Bondy-Denomy, a microbiologist at the University of California, San Francisco. As a graduate student in the ...
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The scientist who created the world’s first known genetically modified babies, stunning the global scientific community, has been sentenced by a Chinese court to three years in prison, state media ...
The Chinese researcher who stunned and alarmed the international scientific community with the announcement that he had created the world's first gene-edited babies has been sentenced to three years ...
A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world’s first genetically edited babies was sentenced Monday to three years in prison ...
It began as an effort to understand how microbes fight viral infections. Within their chromosomes bacteria store snippets of DNA taken from the viruses they encounter. These fragments, which ...
Will paper money disappear? Will gene-tailored medicine transform how we treat disease? And will you finally trade in that juicy steak for “cell grown” meat?
As a new decade begins, ...
Have you heard the news about sickle cell anaemia and beta thalassemia, the devastating diseases which prevent red blood cells carrying as much oxygen as they should? A new, ...
There are key moments in the history of every disruptive technology that can make or break its public perception and acceptance. For CRISPR-based genome editing, such a moment occurred ...
What differentiates a woman leader in biopharma R&D from a man?
Not much, except there are fewer of them in senior posts. Data suggest women are not more risk-averse, family-oriented ...
As investors await results from the first U.S. clinical trials of the gene-editing system known as Crispr, scientists are focused on finding ways to administer it directly into humans, ...
Denis Rebrikov also told Nature that he does not plan to implant gene-edited embryos until he gets regulatory approval.
Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov has started gene editing in eggs donated by women ...
The first decade of the 21st century introduced us to sweeping mobile and social revolutions largely driven by names like Jobs, Zuckerberg and Bezos. In the second decade that's now ...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today granted the University of California (UC) and its partners, the University of Vienna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, a new CRISPR-Cas9 patent, bringing ...
CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna discussed the gene-editing technology with Bloomberg's Taylor Riggs on "Bloomberg Technology", explaining how it works, its effect on life sciences and clinical research, its applications, ...
Renowned biochemist and genomics researcher Jennifer Doudna has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest by Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...
Chinese researchers safely treated a man with leukemia and HIV using gene-edited stem cells, a step forward in a field that was shaken last year when another Chinese scientist ...
Jennifer Doudna, winner of the 2018 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience, talks to Scientific American about what it’s like to work in perhaps the hottest research area in all of biology. She also ...
Structural biologist and biochemist Jennifer Doudna has been honored with the 2019 Welfare Betterment Prize, a relatively new Hong Kong-based prize, for her pioneering discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing.
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On 10 June 2017, a sunny and hot Saturday in Shenzhen, China, two couples came to the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) to discuss whether they would ...
Jennifer Doudna talks to Richard Waters, the FT's San Francisco bureau chief, about how she discovered the CRISPR Cas-9 system and how it is transforming the world of gene ...
Jeff Carroll had been married for six months when he and his wife decided not to have children. Carroll, 25 years old and a former corporal in the US ...
Jennifer Doudna learned by email that a scientist in China had used the blockbuster gene-editing tool she'd helped invent to reportedly edit the DNA of a pair of twin baby ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
When it comes to CRISPR, questions about if we can edit human embryos are fast giving way to discussions more focused on “But should we?” and “When?” as feats ...
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.
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New Patent Expands Company's Antimicrobial Technologies Intellectual Property Portfolio and New Continuing Education Course Provides Professional Development.
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Gene-editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna’s new book reveals her dreams and nightmares about what she has unleashed.
Adolf Hitler came to her in a dream, wearing a pig’s face and asking ...
CRISPR gene editing has delivered on its every scientific promise. Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg's book gives a generous account of this towering achievement.
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Jennifer Doudna, 53, is an American biochemist based at the University of California, Berkeley. Together with the French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier, she led the discovery of the revolutionary gene-editing ...
A breakthrough in genetic technology has given humans more power than ever to change nature. It could help eliminate hunger and disease; it could also lead to the sort ...
These days, if there’s a conversation about gene editing, it often centers on the CRISPR technique. CRISPR allows researchers to quickly edit DNA more easily than any tool in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
