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Using genome engineering to solve humanity’s greatest problems in health, climate & sustainable agriculture. UC Berkeley, UCSF, UC Davis. https://innovativegenomics.org/

Innovative Genomics Institute

Our work at IGI is stronger thanks to the hard work and brilliant insights of researchers from around the globe! Case in point: IGI's Director of Technology & Translation, Fyodor Urnov, celebrated in Forbes 250: America's Most Successful Immigrants. Read more: https://ow.ly/fK6x50ZacE5

The Nobel Prize winning CRISPR technology was applied to treating a patient with sickle cell anemia. Jennifer Doudna, pictured here, shared the Nobel Prize (2020) with Emmanuelle Charpentier for CRISPR. A reminder that work on CRISPR was supported by #NIH funding. 🧪

Coming up tomorrow at 2 PM Pacific. Join us in Berkeley or on Zoom!

Super excited to share the final project of my postdoc career! We found that Borgs and mini-Borgs are widespread across diverse ecosystems. They don't just exist in Banfield Lab — they are everywhere! 🌎

Out today in Nature, new research from Jennifer Doudna, postdoc @jingkunzeng.bsky.social, and collaborators shows a #CRISPR-based method for selectively killing "undruggable" #cancers by recognizing cells with cancer-causing mutations and shredding their DNA. Learn more: https://ow.ly/NRss50Z8tQK

🌱🌍 New in Nature Reviews Bioengineering, "Genome engineering of plant photosynthesis for carbon sequestration" from IGI researchers from co-first authors Evan Groover and Flora Zhiqi Wang, and the Savage Lab and Niyogi and Lemaux labs! Read here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44222-026-00453-3

CRISPR is commonly thought of as a repair tool for the genome. This clever new approach to fighting some of the most challenging cancers takes CRISPR back to its roots in nature, using it to seek and selectively destroy cells with a cancer signature. 🧬🧪

Coming up Tuesday, June 2 at 2 PM Pacific — Tandy Warnow of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will be giving a seminar on new methods for #microbiome analysis. Join us in Berkeley or on Zoom: https://innovativegenomics.org/events/seminar-series-tandy-warnow/

“The Joy of Why” is back. In our first episode of the new season, pioneering biochemist Jennifer Doudna talks about how her early, “rebellious,” decision to study RNA led her to a Nobel Prize. Tune in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

#CRISPR enzyme precisely detects and shreds #DNA in #cancer mutations once considered 'undruggable' #Chemistry #Health #Science #Technology

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Podcast Episode · The Joy of Why · June 11 · 51m

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What’s the Future of Gene Editing?

In 2020, Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for her work on the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology that allows scientists to precisely modify DNA by cutting it at specific locations. Si...

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