In 2014 biochemist Jennifer Doudna of the University of California at Berkeley awoke from a
nightmare that would shift the focus of her world-class scientific career. Two years earlier …

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Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno he possibility of rewriting the genome of an
organism, or even of an entire species, has long been the stuff of science fiction. But with the …

Not since the early, heady days of recombinant DNA (rDNA) has a technique of molecular
biology so gripped the scientific imagination as the CRISPR-Cas9 method of gene editing …

'An excellent, brisk guide to what is likely to happen as opposed to the fantastically remote.'-
Los Angeles Review of Books In 2018 the world woke up to gene editing with a storm of …

People in pain write to Jennifer Doudna. They have a congenital illness. Or they have a sick
child. Or they carry the gene for Huntington's disease or some other dreadful time-bomb …

Some of the greatest benefactors of our species are not the recognized do-gooders but
those paid to satisfy their curiosity: the scientists. Such pure and unsullied inquiry has …

International uproar followed the recent announcement of the birth of twin girls whose
genomes had been edited with a breakthrough DNA editing-technology. This technology …

CRISPR gene-editing technology co-inventor Jennifer Doudna addressed the opportunities
and challenges of editing genomes in a Thursday conversation with political science and …