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First-of-its-kind Course Trains African Scientists to use CRISPR to Adapt Agriculture to Climate Change
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A New Approach for RNA Targeting
Fruit flies expressing red eye and green body fluorescent markers demonstrated the viability of a new system for safely converting split gene drives into full gene drives.
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Researchers Create New System for Safer Gene-Drive Testing and Development
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Rice Breakthrough Could Benefit Small Farmers Around the World
Press Releases, Jennifer Doudna

New Compact Genome Editors Found in Viruses
Micrograph of archaea
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Like the Borg of Star Trek, These ‘Aliens’ Assimilate DNA from Other Microbes
Scientist holds a pipette near a plate of bacterial colonies
Press Releases, Innovation & Entrepreneurship

New Gift Supports Precision Microbiome Editing Technology Development at the IGI
Brian Shy analyzing data on a computer
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A Cellular Engineering Breakthrough: High-Yield CRISPR Without Viral Vectors
artistic rendering of fruit and flies
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CRISPR-Based Technology Targets Global Crop Pest
pattern showing microfluidic cartridges
Press Releases, COVID-19, Innovation & Entrepreneurship

IGI Researchers Develop Rapid, Point-of-Care COVID-19 Diagnostic Test
HS Chau Women in Enterprising Science Program at the Innovative Genomics Institute
Press Releases, IGI News, Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Inaugural Cohort of Fellows Selected for HS Chau Women in Enterprising Science Program
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Scientists Map Networks of Disease-Associated Immune Genes
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Veronika Kivenson Selected as the 2022 Tory Burch Fellow at the IGI
Press Releases, Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Supercharging Plants and Soils to Remove Carbon from the Atmosphere
Scientist marking a clear plate with 12 circular wells. Clear zones on the purple background show the SARS-CoV-2 virus escaping from neutralizing antibodies in patient blood samples
Press Releases, COVID-19, Jennifer Doudna

“Natural Immunity” from Omicron is Weak and Limited, Study Finds