CRISPR and Berkeley: A revolutionary discovery

Jennifer Doudna laughs with a cup of coffee in her hand and a phone in the other hand

UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

How CRISPR works

Jennifer Doudna in her lab

The Doudna Lab

Cas9 molecule

CRISPR Timeline

CRISPR-Cas9 molecule

Patent office renews dispute over patent...

a molecular model of the Cas9 protein opening and editing a strand of DNA

CRISPR-Cas9 video gallery

February 15, 2017

The Innovative Genomics Institute

February 15, 2017

man and woman in face masks and white coats looking upward at Petri dish

What makes Omicron more infectious than other...

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Can CRISPR help us deal with climate change?

two people standing in a field of green rice

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative puts $11 million...

graphic showing how CRISPR edits out the sickle cell mutation in the genome

U.S. patent appeal board rules against UC in...

February 28, 2022

A group photo of the leadership team at UC Berkeley's new Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public

New Kavli Center at UC Berkeley to foster...

December 9, 2021

three male researchers looking at a petri dish

CRISPRing the microbiome is just around the...

December 6, 2021

An illustration of a DNA strand

CRISPR scientists grapple with the ethics,...

November 18, 2021

graphic explaining how diagnostic test works

Using two CRISPR enzymes, a COVID diagnostic...

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Berkeley auctions NFTs of Nobel Prize-winning...

An illustration of a CRISPR-Cas9 protein bonded to a sheet of graphene

CRISPR-based device rapidly spots...

Cassandra, who has sickle cell disease

FDA approves clinical trial of CRISPR...

CRISPR-Cas9 molecule

Using CRISPR, new technique makes it easy to...

December 10, 2020

An illustration shows a green sample in a vial. Next to it is a bubble which shows a close up of the CRISPR Cas13 protein and how it interacts with viral RNA.

New CRISPR-based COVID-19 test uses...

December 4, 2020

Jennifer Doudna smiles at people on her computer screen celebrating her Nobel Prize win

UC Berkeley campus reacts to two Nobel Prize...

October 7, 2020

Jennifer Doudna pours champagne while wearing a mask

Jill Banfield: How a curious Google search...

October 7, 2020

doudna sits in a journalism studio with no people in it. There is a face on teh screen in the foreground.

Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna: Gene editing...

October 7, 2020