We sat down with some of the most curious minds in life sciences and healthcare and invited them to share their thoughts on their careers, the future of health ...
Brightseed Bio 01™ is the first ingredient in Brightseed’s portfolio of bioactives discovered by its artificial intelligence (A.I.) platform Forager®
Formulated to optimize bioactives that support gut health, ...
Startups are creating diets tailored to patients’ medical needs, betting that specially-designed foods can work as powerful weapons against disease.
Interest among venture capitalists in the medical potential of food ...
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 ...
China has used the genome editor more aggressively, on more species, than any other country.
Early one February morning, researchers harvest six eggs from a female rhesus macaque—one of 4000 ...
When Rachel Haurwitz started her biology Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, the award-winning biochemist Jennifer Doudna suggested Haurwitz investigate part of a bacterial immune system. She studied how ...
Written by Dr. Jennifer Doudna, Professor of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an important call to action.
The data, consensus of ...
While ethicists debate the applications of blockbuster gene-editing tool Crispr in human healthcare, an inventor of the tool believes it has a more immediate application: improving our food.
"I think ...
This week the USDA announced it has no plans to regulate gene-editing technologies like Crispr, opening the door to a boom in designer foods.
For years now, the US Department ...
‘The technology has accelerated the pace of modern research almost exponentially, shaping the future of both medicine and agriculture'
I still remember my first encounter with DNA. We were doing ...
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 ...
Stay on target. That’s the mantra you hear in labs and biotech companies around the world as they snip away at DNA. All the techniques for gene editing—from 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 ...
CrisprCon is not a place where spandexed, beglittered, refrigerator drawer fans come together for an all-you-can-eat celebration of unwilted produce. No. Crispr-Cas9 (no E), if you haven’t been paying attention, is ...
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 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 ...
Jennifer Doudna was a pioneer of CRISPR, which is a gene-editing technology that is being increasingly studied and used across the world.
Jennifer relates the genesis of CRISPR to us ...
If there was one misstep that doomed the long and bitter fight by the University of California to wrest key CRISPR patents from the Broad Institute, it was star UC ...
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 ...
Like other species, we are the products of millions of years of adaptation. Now we're taking matters into our own hands.
When I met the cyborg Neil Harbisson, in Barcelona, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The ability to quickly alter the code of life has given us unprecedented power over the natural world. Should we use it?
If you took a glance around Anthony James’s ...
CRISPR - get to know this acronym. It's good to know the name of something that could change your future.
Pronounced "crisper", it is a biological system for altering DNA. ...
What is gene editing and how does is work?
A technique that allows scientists to accurately edit and rewrite DNA sequences has been developed in the US. Some scientists believe ...
Within the past few years scientists have revolutionized genetic engineering techniques so that now, with relative ease, they can precisely edit the genetic coding of animals more-or-less on demand. ...
Breakthroughs in genetic engineering, 3D printing, cloud-based science experiments, A.I. and machine learning technology have created a weird and cool new kind of cutting-edge biotech that goes beyond pharma ...
