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IGI News

The IGI’s 2021 Year-in-Review
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Meet an IGI Scientist

Meet an IGI Scientist: Basem Al-Shayeb
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Press Releases, Jennifer Doudna

New Kavli Center at UC Berkeley to Foster Ethics, Engagement in Science
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CRISPRing the Microbiome is Just Around the Corner
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Perspectives

Metagenomics 101 With Spencer Diamond
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Press Releases

$17 Million Will Launch Trial of CRISPR Cure for Sickle Cell
IGI News, Perspectives

When Will CRISPR Cures Be Available?
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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
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Press Releases

IGI’s 2021 SKCF Faculty Scholar Imtiyaz Khanday is Building a Better Potato
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Meet an IGI Scientist

Meet an IGI Scientist: María Florencia Ercoli
Press Releases, IGI News

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

IGI Clinical Laboratory Receives Accreditation from the College of American Pathologists
Aedes aegypti mosquito
Press Releases

New Technology Designed to Genetically Control Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes
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COVID-19

Using Two CRISPR Enzymes, a COVID Diagnostic In Only 20 Minutes