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 ...
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor Jennifer Doudna of UC Berkeley for a discussion of her intellectual odyssey that led to the discovery of CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary tool for ...
Prof Jennifer Doudna, one of the pioneers of Crispr-Cas9 gene editing, explains how this revolutionary discovery enables precise changes to our DNA, which can be used to correct mutations ...
Our technological capacity to make changes to genomic data has expanded exponentially since the 2012 discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 as an RNA-programmable genome editing tool.
Over the past seven years, this ...
The Chinese scientist who created “CRISPR babies,” He Jiankui, sincerely believed that the research violated neither his country’s laws nor the guidelines of the international scientific community, according to his ...
Today, in honor of International Women’s Day, we want to highlight just a few of the incredible women WIRED has written about over the years, whose work breaks boundaries, ...
CRISPR Cas9 has been described as the greatest biological breakthrough in decades. The hopes resting on this gene editing technology are immense - this week a Swiss drug company ...
Powerful gene-editing tool could help to diagnose illnesses such as Lassa fever early and rein in the spread of infection.
An epidemic of Lassa fever in Nigeria that has killed ...
It's the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February. This day is a reminder that women and girls play a critical role in science and ...
Young scientists collaborating with CRISPR impresario Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, generally don’t envision mucking about with groundwater teeming with all manner of microscopic beasts. But ...
CRISPR gene-editing technology co-inventor Jennifer Doudna addressed the opportunities and challenges of editing genomes in a Thursday conversation with political science and ethics professor Rob Reich and genetics professor Kelly Ormond.
“The ...
Some U.S. researchers knew of a Chinese scientist’s intentions to implant edited embryos but were unable to stop him. Now scientific institutions are trying to devise global safeguards.
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In 2019, we can expect accelerating scientific research and practical advances using CRISPR-Cas9—a tool that allows scientists to easily change an organism’s DNA—towards cures for genetic diseases, ...
From the debut of a giant rocket and the discovery of an underground lake on Mars to reef-repairing robots and the next steps toward a working hyperloop, the past year has been a momentous one for ...
Few seemed more surprised by the tide of outrage unleashed by the claim that the first gene-edited babies had been created with the revolutionary lab tool called CRISPR than ...
BEIJING — First it was a proposal to transplant a head to a new body. Then it was the world’s first cloned primates. Now it is genetically edited babies.
Those recent scientific ...
On Sunday, a scientist stirred major controversy by claiming that the world's first genetically edited babies were recently born in China. The scientist, Jiankui He, claims to have used ...
In response to ongoing developments related to claims that the world’s first genetically edited babies have been born in China, Dr. Jennifer Doudna, professor of chemistry and molecular & ...
Delaney Van Riper was exhausted. It was the summer of 2017 and she’d spent the previous day touring UC Santa Cruz’s cliffside campus, getting her student paperwork in order, ...
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 ...
Having established partnerships with World Courier and Deloitte recently, Vineti has now formed another one with Quick Specialized Healthcare Logistics, part of the Quick International express-delivery firm. Vineti, based in San ...
In the growing field of personalized cell and gene therapies, supporting systems and supply chains need to be taken as seriously as the science. Today, two leaders in cell ...
A deep look at how technology plays a role in the increasingly common approach of personalizing treatments for individuals. Panelists include Jay Shendure, a professor of genome sciences at the ...
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Two years after biochemist Jennifer Doudna helped introduce the world to the gene-editing tool known as Crispr, a 14-year-old from New ...
The Rockefeller University has announced that Jennifer Doudna will receive this year’s Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, a major international accolade honoring outstanding women scientists. Doudna is a professor of chemistry ...
Vineti, Inc., the leading digital traceability and orchestration solution for cell and gene therapies, and World Courier, a part of AmerisourceBergen and a global leader in specialty logistics, today ...
Vineti Inc. and Deloitte have struck a deal aimed at making complex cell- and gene-therapy procedures more transparent.
Drug developers are developing a growing number of cell and gene therapies. ...
The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience, given every other year by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Kavli Foundaion, was awarded this year to Jennifer Doudna and ...
What would biohacking, entrepreneurship and CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing mean for an unregulated IVF industry?
Using CRISPR to gene edit human embryos has already been done for research, but so far ...
Having a fast and easy way to cut out and replace genes could revolutionise areas of biology as diverse as medicine and agriculture. And the discovery of the gene ...
Like any self-respecting farmer, Zachary Lippman was grumbling about the weather. Stout, with close-cropped hair and beard, Lippman was standing in a greenhouse in the middle of Long Island, ...
Sometimes the future shows up so fast it hits us in the face, like a brick wall in a VR headset. Other times the miraculous promises of technology—the rearrangement ...
For $150, you can buy a Crispr kit online and use it to engineer heartier gut bacteria in your kitchen. That’s thrilling, but the technology is giving Jennifer Doudna, ...
Academy Honors 19 for Major Contributions to Science
WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences will honor 19 individuals with awards in recognition of their extraordinary scientific achievements in a ...
In 2012, Jennifer Doudna, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, coauthored a seminal paper that described how CRISPR-Cas9, a natural defense system found in bacteria, could be ...
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 ...
For their roles in the creation of a remarkable gene editing system that has been called the “discovery of the century,” five researchers have been announced as the recipients ...
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 ...
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, ...
