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UNBELIEVABLE: Jennifer doudna - Caught on Camera

Gene-Editing Startup Scraps Lead Program Seven Months After Launch and Cuts Staff

Aurora Therapeutics deprioritized its lead personalized gene-editing program and cut staff, exposing how hard it is to scale one-patient CRISPR therapies.

Medical Daily

US supercomputer named after Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna to power AI and scientific research

A new supercomputer named after a winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry will help power artificial intelligence technology and scientific discoveries from a perch in the hills above the University of California, Berkeley, federal officials said Thursday

The Independent UK

‘An AI Fukushima is inevitable’: scientists discuss technology’s immense potential and dangers

Experts are optimistic about energy and drug production breakthroughs but also fear its potential misuse

The Guardian - UK

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FDA approves first gene-editing treatment for human illness

The Food and Drug Administration approved two genetic treatments for sickle cell disease, including one that uses gene-editing. The approvals offer hope for patients and signal a new medical era.

WEKU

We'd all benefit from "quitting cows"

". . . Even a modest skew away from meat-based diets can shrink an individual’s carbon footprint as much as 75%"

Salon

Creating and implanting synthetic monkey embryos could pave the way to stem-cell babies

In January 2017, I met Jiankui He, the now-infamous Chinese scientist who would go on to create the world’s first genome-edited babies. This was at a meeting in Berkeley, Calif., hosted by Jennifer Doudna who, along with Emmanuelle Charpentier, was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work…

The Conversation

Experts weigh medical advances in gene-editing with ethical dilemmas

The last time this summit convened in 2018, the world was shocked to hear a scientist had created the first gene-edited babies. He was condemned, but gene-editing has continued, with some success.

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Forthcoming genetic therapies raise serious ethical questions, experts warn

One of greatest risks of gene editing tools ‘is that the people who would benefit most will not be able to access them’

The Guardian - UK

How far should we go with gene editing in pursuit of the ‘perfect’ human?

As the world’s top human genome editing researchers gather in London, the ethical issues posed by pioneering scientific advances will be high on their agenda

The Guardian - UK

CRISPR, 10 Years On: Learning to Rewrite the Code of Life

Ten years ago this week, Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues published the results of a test-tube experiment on bacterial genes. When the study came out in the journal Science on June 28, 2012, it did not make headline news. In fact, over the next few weeks, it did not make…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Disease-resistant pigs and oily plants – why UK scientists seek to alter food genes

Experts welcome planned laws on the use of genetic technology, but say growing global crises demand urgent action

The Guardian - UK

30 amazing women in science and math

From the first woman to win a Nobel Prize to the discoverer of jumping genes, here are some of the women who have made major contributions to science and mathematics.

LiveScience

How does CRISPR work?

CRISPR is a versatile tool for editing genomes and has recently been approved as a gene therapy treatment for certain blood disorders.

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