In The Code Breaker, Walter Isaacson recounts the drama of the discovery in a digestible narrative that tackles the promise and the peril of Crispr.
For Isaacson, an accomplished storyteller of ...
The first day of summer has arrived, and so has STAT’s annual book list of great reads in health, science, and medicine.
Read on for recommendations from CRISPR pioneer Jennifer ...
In August 2012, University of California, Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna and colleagues published an article in the journal Science titled “A Programmable Dual-RNA—Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity.” Though 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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
