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Jack Kim and Jill Banfield in the rice field with a Picarro gas chamber to measure methane emissions
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Inside Genomics: Microbes Meet Climate Change
Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public team photo
Press Releases, Jennifer Doudna

New Kavli Center at UC Berkeley to Foster Ethics, Engagement in Science
CRISPR therapy for sickle cell disease. Illustration of sickle cell disease with affected red blood cells in a blood vessel
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$17 Million Will Launch Trial of CRISPR Cure for Sickle Cell
Researchers at work at CGIAR’s International Institute of Tropical Agriculture campus in Ibadan, Nigeria (Chris de Bode/CGIAR)
Press Releases, IGI News

Harnessing the Power of CRISPR to Reduce Poverty and Malnutrition
SARS-CoV-2 virions
Press Releases, COVID-19, Jennifer Doudna

New Method Sheds Light on Why Some SARS-CoV-2 Variants Are More Infectious
Potatoes of multiple colors
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IGI’s 2021 SKCF Faculty Scholar Imtiyaz Khanday is Building a Better Potato
Press Releases, IGI News

David Savage Earns Prestigious Appointment as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
IGI Clinical Laboratory tubes
Press Releases, IGI News, COVID-19

IGI Clinical Laboratory Receives Accreditation from the College of American Pathologists
Aedes aegypti mosquito
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New Technology Designed to Genetically Control Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes
Soil microbes and plant roots
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Bogs, Bugs & Borgs
Jill Banfield and colleagues in a rice field
Press Releases, IGI News

IGI Launches New Research in Net-Zero Farming & Carbon Capture
virus-like particle for CRISPR delivery
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How Do You Get Inside a Cell? Copy a Virus 
illustration of diverse women
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Dr. Nabiha Saklayen Awarded Tory Burch Fellowship at the Innovative Genomics Institute
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New CRISPR Technology Offers Unrivaled Control of Epigenetic Inheritance
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