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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
It switches off CRISPR-Cas9’s molecular scissors.
Scientists have discovered a virus-made protein that can block the powerful gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 from cutting DNA. The protein allows researchers to better control CRISPR so ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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In the last few years, the term CRISPR has exploded on the global scene, and with it UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna, one of the pioneers in the field, ...
Panorama looks at the breakthrough that could change the lives of everyone and everything on the planet.
Gene editing is revolutionising medical research and could deliver new treatments - even ...
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. ...
Just a few years ago, Crispr was a cipher — something that sounded to most ears like a device for keeping lettuce fresh. Today, Crispr-Cas9 is widely known as ...
People in pain write to Jennifer Doudna. They have a congenital illness. Or they have a sick child. Or they carry the gene for Huntington’s disease or some other ...
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. ...
