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CRISPRing the Microbiome is Just Around the Corner
Artistic rendering of E. coli and phages
Perspectives

Metagenomics 101 With Spencer Diamond
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
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IGI News, Perspectives

When Will CRISPR Cures Be Available?
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, Innovation & Entrepreneurship

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
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