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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In the growing field of personalized cell and gene therapies, supporting systems and supply chains need to be taken as seriously as the science. Today, two leaders in cell ...
A deep look at how technology plays a role in the increasingly common approach of personalizing treatments for individuals. Panelists include Jay Shendure, a professor of genome sciences at the ...
Vineti, Inc., the leading digital traceability and orchestration solution for cell and gene therapies, and World Courier, a part of AmerisourceBergen and a global leader in specialty logistics, today ...
Vineti Inc. and Deloitte have struck a deal aimed at making complex cell- and gene-therapy procedures more transparent.
Drug developers are developing a growing number of cell and gene therapies. ...
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 ...
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.
Scientific feat or terrifying social experiment?
Specialists in the field discuss the high stakes and ethical controversies of gene editing.
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A couple of years ago Jennifer Doudna had a nightmare about a gene-surgery tool called Crispr-Cas9, the revolutionary discovery that made her name. She was asked to explain it ...
For the first time, scientists have edited the DNA in human embryos to make a fundamental discovery about the earliest days of human development.
By modifying a key gene in ...
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, ...
Jennifer Doudna faces an uncommon challenge for a scientist at the top of her form and the forefront of her field: While she watches her work produce “breathtaking” advances in ...
Company Expands Leadership Team With Seasoned Industry Executives Christopher Dawes and David M. Joyner.
HAYWARD, Calif., July 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Silver, the maker of SilvaClean™ Antimicrobial Treatment, today announced the ...
In recent years, two new genetic technologies have started a scientific and medical revolution. One, relatively well known, is the ability to easily decode the information in our genes. ...
New Patent Expands Company's Antimicrobial Technologies Intellectual Property Portfolio and New Continuing Education Course Provides Professional Development.
HAYWARD, Calif., July 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Silver, the maker of SilvaClean™ Antimicrobial Treatment, today ...
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 ...
Some of the greatest benefactors of our species are not the recognized do-gooders but those paid to satisfy their curiosity: the scientists. Such pure and unsullied inquiry has yielded ...
The pioneer biochemist feels a responsibility to weigh in on ethical debates about gene editing.
Jennifer Doudna remembers a moment when she realized how important CRIPSR—the gene-editing technique that she ...
Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. Not, that is, until the spring of 2015, when ...
CRISPR coinventor Jennifer Doudna talks about developing the gene-editing tool that’s poised to change the world.
Scientists now have a relatively easy and inexpensive way to read, write, and edit ...
This is an invaluable account, by Doudna and Samuel Sternberg, of their role in the revolution that is genome editing
It began with the kind of research the Trump administration wants ...
There’s a well-to-do couple thinking about having children. They order a battery of genetic tests to ensure that there’s nothing untoward lurking in their genomes. And they discover that ...
The discovery of the gene-editing technology CRISPR came, in part, from Jennifer Doudna, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley. “It’s very profound," she told NBC News. "It ...
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 ...
A breakthrough in gene editing, CRISPR, gives humans unprecedented access to the source code of life. Jennifer Doudna is a pioneering co-inventor behind the technology that could fix diseases ...
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. ...
In terms of impact on the future of the human race, no invention in this still-young century may measure up to the gene-editing tool Crispr. “Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic ...
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 ...
Agriculture has come a long way in the past century. We produce more food than ever before — but our current model is unsustainable, and as the world’s population ...
CRISPR is already known for its power as a gene-editing tool that could one day transform how we fight cancer and other life-threatening diseases. But CRISPR’s potential is broader than that — ...
Scientists are pushing for a relaxation of the laws surrounding gene editing technology to allow experiments to be performed on human embryos.
But they warn any such research would need ...
AS POWERFUL AS the gene-editing technique Crispr is turning out to be—researchers are using it to make malaria-proof mosquitoes, disease-resistant tomatoes, live bacteria thumb drives, and all kinds of other crazy stuff—so far US scientists ...
Facing a breast-cancer survivor, a doctor grapples with the implications of new gene-editing recommendations.
A few days ago, I had just stepped off a podium at a cancer conference when ...
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 ...
In case you haven’t heard enough about Wednesday’s CRISPR patent ruling, we decided to tally up the winners in another court: the world of scientific prizes.
Turns out, it’s not ...
About 10 years ago, scientists at a yogurt laboratory in Denmark noticed a peculiar feature in a bacterial genome. They spotted repeating patterns of bases—the components of DNA sequences, ...
As you’ve likely heard if you work in the biosciences, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT just won a big patent battle over the revolutionary gene editing technology known ...
UC Berkeley scientists who discovered a revolutionary technique for editing the genes of living cells won the right Wednesday to seek patents on their system — a decision that ...
For more than a year, 22 of the world’s leading geneticists, bioethicists, physicians, and legal scholars have been wrestling with thorny questions posed by the revolutionary advances in scientists’ ...
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded the Japan Prize today for their invention of the revolutionary gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9, which has swept into research labs around ...
