Jennifer Doudna, “CRISPR Biology and Biotechnology: The Future of Genome Editing”
On Friday, November 16, 2018, the Science History Institute hosted its annual Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture to a sold-out audience. This year’s lecturer was Jennifer Doudna, a biochemist who is one of the scientists credited with discovering the molecular tool CRISPR-Cas9. This discovery, made in 2012, provided the foundation for gene editing, enabling researchers to make specific changes to DNA sequences in a way that was far more efficient and technically simpler than earlier methods.
