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CRISPR therapy for sickle cell disease. Illustration of sickle cell disease with affected red blood cells in a blood vessel
Press Releases

$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
Press Releases

IGI’s 2021 SKCF Faculty Scholar Imtiyaz Khanday is Building a Better Potato
Photo of hanging lab coats
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
IGI Clinical Laboratory tubes
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
illustration shows RNA being cut by CRISPR enzymes and bright green light emitted
COVID-19

Using Two CRISPR Enzymes, a COVID Diagnostic In Only 20 Minutes
Soil microbes and plant roots
Press Releases

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
Hanging white lab coats
Meet an IGI Scientist

Meet an IGI Scientist: Alex Pollen
virus-like particle for CRISPR delivery
Press Releases

How Do You Get Inside a Cell? Copy a Virus 
Jennifer Doudna

Jennifer Doudna Receives Wolf Prize in Medicine
illustration of diverse women
Press Releases

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