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Check here for the latest news and developments from the Innovative Genomics Institute.
Inside Genomics: Microbes Meet Climate Change
![Jack Kim and Jill Banfield in the rice field with a Picarro gas chamber to measure methane emissions](https://innovativegenomics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/rice-thumbnail-2.jpg)
New Kavli Center at UC Berkeley to Foster Ethics, Engagement in Science
![Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public team photo](https://innovativegenomics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/kavli_ethics_1-2.jpg)
$17 Million Will Launch Trial of CRISPR Cure for Sickle Cell
![CRISPR therapy for sickle cell disease. Illustration of sickle cell disease with affected red blood cells in a blood vessel](https://innovativegenomics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Sickle-Cell-1896x964-1-2.jpg)
Harnessing the Power of CRISPR to Reduce Poverty and Malnutrition
![Researchers at work at CGIAR’s International Institute of Tropical Agriculture campus in Ibadan, Nigeria (Chris de Bode/CGIAR)](https://innovativegenomics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cgiar_header-2.jpg)
New Method Sheds Light on Why Some SARS-CoV-2 Variants Are More Infectious
![SARS-CoV-2 virions](https://innovativegenomics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Virion-hero-2.png)
IGI’s 2021 SKCF Faculty Scholar Imtiyaz Khanday is Building a Better Potato
![Potatoes of multiple colors](https://innovativegenomics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/potatoes-1360X500-2.jpg)
David Savage Earns Prestigious Appointment as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
![](https://innovativegenomics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Dave-Savage-2000x1000-1-2.png)
IGI Clinical Laboratory Receives Accreditation from the College of American Pathologists
![IGI Clinical Laboratory tubes](https://innovativegenomics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/igi_clinical_laboratory_tubes-2.jpg)
New Technology Designed to Genetically Control Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes
![Aedes aegypti mosquito](https://innovativegenomics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1280px-Aedes_aegypti-2.jpeg)
Bogs, Bugs & Borgs
![Soil microbes and plant roots](https://innovativegenomics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Rice-Soil-Microbes-2000x1000-1-2.png)