Year: 2015

I work on CRISPR.  I had previously worked with the older technologies mentioned in the podcast (which I thought was a pretty good description of CRISPR to non-scientists). Honestly the potential benefits of CRISPR far out weight the dangers, in my opinion.  CRISPR should allow...

Illustration by Sébastien Thibault Three years ago, Bruce Conklin came across a method that made him change the course of his lab. Conklin, a geneticist at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California, had been trying to work out how variations in DNA affect various...

U.S. biochemist Jennifer Doudna said Thursday that she was “thrilled” to receive the 2015 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research for developing a technology that allows genes to be edited and nucleic acids to be manipulated with great precision. “This award emphasizes...

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna Source: FPA USPA NEWS – The biochemists Emmanuelle Charpentier (France) and Jennifer Doudna (USA) have been bestowed with the 2015 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, as made public in Oviedo by the Jury responsible for conferring...

IHM/National Library of Medicine The 1975 Asilomar conference helped set rules for research on DNA.                   The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) will launch a major initiative to develop...

Researchers from the Creative Animodel Institute use CRISPR/Cas genetic regulatory system, manipulating mouse genome with one step into the reporter gene and the conditional allele. Now we just need several weeks rather than a few years time to generate such a complex engineering allele animals...

Last year Tony Perry made mice that would have been brown-furred grow up white instead. That Perry, a molecular embryologist at the University of Bath, tweaked their coat colour isn’t new – scientists have been making so-called knock-out mice, in which certain genes are disabled,...

By now, most within the biomedical fields have likely at least heard mention of the gene-editing tool known as CRISPR/Cas9. Since 2013, this technique has created a veritable revolution within the disciplines of molecular biology and genetics and is already showing tremendous promise for treating...

Cold Spring Harbor, NY – Imagine having a complete catalog of the best drug targets to hit in a particularly deadly form of cancer. Imagine having a master catalog of such targets for all the major cancer types and subtypes. Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor...