Jennifer Doudna: The American biochemist co-won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
When US biochemist Jennifer Doudna discovered the key for editing DNA, she opened scientific frontiers full of promise – and peril.
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When US biochemist Jennifer Doudna discovered the key for editing DNA, she opened scientific frontiers full of promise – and peril.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (like its predecessor, the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences or BPAI) occasionally renders an opinion having the tendency to raise an eyebrow...
Book Review: CRISPR People – The science and ethics of editing humans Appeared in BioNews 1097 In November 2018, the Chinese scientist Dr He Jiankui announced to attendees of the second International Summit on Human Genome Editing that he had used CRISPR-based genome editing to alter the DNA of embryos before transferring them into their mother's uterus. According to Dr He, twin girls with edits to their CCR5gene – known to be implicated in HIV infection – had been born in China just one month prior to the conference. As far as the scientific community was concerned, this experiment...