Turning a bacterial defense mechanism into one of the most powerful tools in genetics has earned Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier the Nobel Prize in chemistry. The award for these genetic ...

CRISPR, a revolutionary technology that can edit genetic mistakes, is getting attention and scrutiny. It could help get rid of diseases like cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and even HIV and cancer ...

BERKELEY, Calif. -- UC Berkeley Professor Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wednesday morning along with French Microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier for their work on genome editing.

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Jennifer Doudna may be just months away from seeing the first CRISPR-based therapy gain approval, but sitting on stage Thursday, the Nobel laureate sounded as ambitious and hungry as ever. “How do we ...

If there was one misstep that doomed the long and bitter fight by the University of California to wrest key CRISPR patents from the Broad Institute, it was star UC Berkeley scientist Jennifer Doudna’s ...

WALTER ISAACSON: In 2012, you and Emmanuelle Charpentier and your team created a new tool using something called CRISPR to edit our genes, you know, our DNA. For the lay person, explain what CRISPR ...

University of California, Berkeley, biochemist Jennifer Doudna today (Oct. 7) won the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry, sharing it with colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier for the co-development of ...

Jennifer Doudna winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. [Kevin Davies] Jennifer Doudna PhD, the UC Berkeley biochemist who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Emmanuelle Charpentier ...

Renowned biochemist and genomics researcher Jennifer Doudna has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at ...