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New Method Sheds Light on Why Some SARS-CoV-2 Variants Are More Infectious
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Jennifer Doudna Receives Wolf Prize in Medicine
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IGI and UC Consortium Launch Clinical Trial on CRISPR Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease
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Doudna, Fauci, Gates: Lessons from History on Vaccines
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Jennifer Doudna’s Nobel Prize Ceremony Was a Day to Remember
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New CRISPR-Based COVID-19 Test Uses Smartphone Cameras to Spot Virus RNA
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Celebrating Jennifer Doudna’s Nobel Prize!
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Jennifer Doudna Wins 2020 Nobel Prize In Chemistry
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Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier: Behind the Development of CRISPR Genome Editing
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New Understanding of CRISPR-Cas9 Tool Could Improve Genome Editing
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