Dr. Alex Colville joins forces with Laura Deming to lead investments in longevity science moonshots, after deploying $100M fund last year while at Stanford
age1, a venture capital firm catalyzing ...
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Over 1,000 times a day, distressed people call crisis support lines operated by Protocall Services. Its counselors are carefully trained for the sensitive and taxing conversations, but even with ...
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 ...
Noyo, the leading API platform powering frictionless benefits, today announced that it has closed $45M in Series B financing. Norwest Venture Partners led the round, joined by Workday Ventures, ...
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As Vasanthi Viswanathan was wrapping up her postdoc in chemical biologist Stuart Schreiber’s lab at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, she found herself at a crossroads. Viswanathan had ...
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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 ...
Gene editing has become one of biotech's hottest areas as the first-in-human results have suggested the technology holds the potential to cure certain diseases with a single treatment.
In 2021, ...
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.
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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 ...
Developing therapeutics is difficult—developing neurotherapeutics is even harder. The blood-brain barrier protecting the brain from unwanted substances makes it extremely difficult for neurotherapeutics to reach their target.
Herophilus, a San ...
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 ...
Herophilus, a leading biotechnology company developing neurotherapeutics to cure complex brain diseases, has appointed Sharath Hegde, Ph.D. as the company’s new Chief Scientific Officer. Dr. Hegde brings over 30 ...
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 ...
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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, ...
Nearly a decade ago, when the first CRISPR companies started looking for capital, Behzad Aghazadeh passed.
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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 ...
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Genome-editing technology
This year finally ...
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 ...
TechCrunch has covered Noyo a few times in the last year. The startup builds APIs for the insurance market, a bit like what Plaid set out to do for ...
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 ...
CommonSpirit Health, a national nonprofit health system serving communities at more than 1,000 care sites and 137 hospitals across 21 states, today announced it is offering new access to ...
