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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
Press Releases

How Do You Get Inside a Cell? Copy a Virus 
illustration of diverse women
Press Releases, Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Dr. Nabiha Saklayen Awarded Tory Burch Fellowship at the Innovative Genomics Institute
Press Releases

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
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
Press Releases

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
Press Releases

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