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CRISPR therapy for sickle cell disease. Illustration of sickle cell disease with affected red blood cells in a blood vessel
Press Releases, Jennifer Doudna

IGI and UC Consortium Launch Clinical Trial on CRISPR Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease
gloved hands handling COVID-19 tests
Press Releases, COVID-19

IGI Scientists Detect More Infectious COVID Variant in Berkeley
Jennifer Doudna, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Bill Gates
Press Releases, COVID-19, Jennifer Doudna

Doudna, Fauci, Gates: Lessons from History on Vaccines
Closeup of the gold Nobel Prize medal in Jennifer Doudna's hand
Press Releases, IGI News, Jennifer Doudna

Jennifer Doudna’s Nobel Prize Ceremony Was a Day to Remember
CRISPTR diagnostics
Press Releases, COVID-19, Jennifer Doudna

New CRISPR-Based COVID-19 Test Uses Smartphone Cameras to Spot Virus RNA
Wheat is being threatened by a disease called wheat blast
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Plant Immune Receptor Discovery Can Help Scientists Fight Agricultural Pandemics
Farmworkers in a field
Press Releases, COVID-19

IGI Researchers Find California Farmworkers Hit Hard by COVID-19
Artistic rendering of E. coli
Press Releases

IGI Scientists Make E. coli That Can Take Carbon Dioxide From the Air — And Use It
arctic ground squirrel
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IGI Scientist Uncovers a Secret to Surviving Extreme Hibernation
Artistic rendering of E. coli and phages
Press Releases, COVID-19

How Do You Fight Antibiotic Resistance? Ask a Virus.
A fiddlehead of an uluhe fern
Press Releases

Missing Link Found in the Evolutionary History of Carbon-Fixing Protein Rubisco
Gold colored wheat plant
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IGI Researchers Awarded $3.2 Million to Address Wheat Crop Diseases
ABE8e
Press Releases, Jennifer Doudna

New Understanding of CRISPR-Cas9 Tool Could Improve Genome Editing
Megaphage
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Megaphages Harbor Mini-Cas Proteins Ideal for Genome Editing
Michael Gomez is using CRISPR genome editing to remove cyanide from cassava
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Using CRISPR Genome Editing to Make Cyanide-Free Cassava