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Want to Change Your DNA?

Biochemist Jennifer Doudna discusses cutting-edge DNA technology that enables the editing of the human genome. It also adds to a growing list of current ethical issues faced by researchers. Growing ...

Politico50: Jennifer Doudna

Two years ago, Jennifer Doudna, a Berkeley biochemist, won a $3 million prize for her role in discovering a breakthrough way to use the gene-editing tool CRISPR to alter ...

Editing Out Pesticides

This summer, more than a million tons of chardonnay grapes are plumping on manicured vineyards around the world. The grapes make one of the most popular white wines, but ...

Kill All the Mosquitoes?!

New gene-editing technology gives scientists the ability to wipe out the carriers of malaria and the Zika virus. But should they use it? To the naked eye, the egg of ...

Gene sleuth

Gene Sleuth When scientists mapped the human genome in 2001, it marked the start of a new scientific era. Now, the real excitement—and power—in genetics lies in manipulating the genome ...

Wonder Women

She revolutionized genetic research More than 10,000 incurable pathologies are caused by simple genetic abnormalities. The genetic editing technology developed by the pair she has formed with the French Emmanuelle ...
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