Owen T. Tuck, a graduate student in Jennifer Doudna’s lab at the University of California. Owen T. Tuck, a graduate student in Jennifer Doudna’s lab at the University of California, Berkeley, thinks ...
CRISPR’s promise of curing diseases hit a setback when researchers discovered that AZD7648, a molecule designed to improve precision, also caused catastrophic hidden damage to DNA. Instead of perfect ...
To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...
In 2011, biochemist Jennifer Doudna helped discover the genetic editing tool CRISPR. Today CRISPR is actively deployed in clinical trials with the potential to cure disease—and alter human evolution.
How does the CRISPR Down Syndrome breakthrough work to remove the extra chromosome 21? We are closer than ever to a world where a genetic condition affecting one in every 700 babies could be addressed ...
Science and medicine are incredibly amazing. Thanks to modern science and medicine, we now have lifespans far beyond our Dark Age predecessors, living until ripe old age and enjoying the fruits of our ...
In the second new research review on this subject, Assistant Prof. Ibrahim Bitar, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital in Plzen, Charles University in Prague, Plzen, ...
“It’s a little scary, quite honestly,” says Dr. Jennifer Doudna, who helped develop CRISPR gene-editing technology. By David Marchese It’s entirely possible, maybe even likely, that during some slow ...