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IGI Launches New Research in Net-Zero Farming & Carbon Capture

July 22, 2021 IGI News Press Releases

Jill Banfield and colleagues in a rice field

How Do You Get Inside a Cell? Copy a Virus

June 1, 2021 Press Releases

virus-like particle for CRISPR delivery

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

May 20, 2021 Innovation & Entrepreneurship Press Releases

illustration of diverse women

New CRISPR Technology Offers Unrivaled Control of Epigenetic Inheritance

April 16, 2021 Press Releases

IGI and UC Consortium Launch Clinical Trial on CRISPR Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease

March 30, 2021 Jennifer Doudna Press Releases

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

IGI Scientists Detect More Infectious COVID Variant in Berkeley

February 4, 2021 COVID-19 Press Releases

gloved hands handling COVID-19 tests

Doudna, Fauci, Gates: Lessons from History on Vaccines

December 11, 2020 COVID-19 Jennifer Doudna Press Releases

Jennifer Doudna, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Bill Gates

Jennifer Doudna’s Nobel Prize Ceremony Was a Day to Remember

December 10, 2020 IGI News Jennifer Doudna Press Releases

Closeup of the gold Nobel Prize medal in Jennifer Doudna's hand

New CRISPR-Based COVID-19 Test Uses Smartphone Cameras to Spot Virus RNA

December 4, 2020 COVID-19 Jennifer Doudna Press Releases

CRISPTR diagnostics

Plant Immune Receptor Discovery Can Help Scientists Fight Agricultural Pandemics

December 4, 2020 Press Releases

Wheat is being threatened by a disease called wheat blast