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Press Releases, IGI News

Jill Banfield Wins the 2023 van Leeuwenhoek Medal
Nostoc cyanobacteria by My Microscopic World
Press Releases

Genetic Engineering Sheds Light on Ancient Evolutionary Questions
Press Releases

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.
Press Releases

Researchers Create New System for Safer Gene-Drive Testing and Development
Press Releases

Rice Breakthrough Could Benefit Small Farmers Around the World
IGI News, COVID-19

The IGI’s 2022 Year-in-Review
Press Releases, Jennifer Doudna

New Compact Genome Editors Found in Viruses
Micrograph of archaea
Press Releases

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
Press Releases

A Cellular Engineering Breakthrough: High-Yield CRISPR Without Viral Vectors
T lymphocyte
Press Releases

Scientists Reveal “Rosetta Stone” of Immune Cell Function
Jack Kim and Jill Banfield in the rice field with a Picarro gas chamber to measure methane emissions
Press Releases

Inside Genomics: Microbes Meet Climate Change
Artistic rendering of E. coli and phages
Perspectives

Metagenomics 101 With Spencer Diamond
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IGI News, Perspectives

When Will CRISPR Cures Be Available?
virus-like particle for CRISPR delivery
Press Releases

How Do You Get Inside a Cell? Copy a Virus