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Mind & body

Infant born with deadly disease now thriving thanks to customized CRISPR treatment six months after birth

A newborn boy, KJ, was diagnosed at birth with a rare and potentially fatal genetic disease. He received a novel, on-demand CRISPR therapy in record time.

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Mind & body

Highly targeted CRISPR delivery advances gene editing in living animals

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Research

What makes Omicron more infectious than other COVID-19 variants?

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Research

In 10 years, CRISPR transformed medicine. Can it now help us deal with climate change?

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative puts $11 million into carbon capture research

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

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New Kavli Center at UC Berkeley to foster ethics, engagement in science

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CRISPRing the microbiome is just around the corner

CRISPR scientists grapple with the ethics, expectations of gene editing

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Using two CRISPR enzymes, a COVID diagnostic in only 20 minutes

UC Berkeley will auction NFTs of Nobel Prize-winning inventions to fund research

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CRISPR-based device rapidly spots disease-causing genetic mutations

FDA approves first test of CRISPR to correct genetic defect causing sickle cell disease

Using CRISPR, new technique makes it easy to map genetic networks

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 smartphone cameras to spot virus RNA

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

UC Berkeley campus reacts to two Nobel Prize wins in one week

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