{"id":182421,"date":"2024-02-10T11:22:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T17:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/jennifer-doudna-delivering-the-future-of-crispr-based-genome-editing"},"modified":"2024-02-10T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T17:22:37","slug":"jennifer-doudna-delivering-the-future-of-crispr-based-genome-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/jennifer-doudna-delivering-the-future-of-crispr-based-genome-editing","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Doudna: Delivering the future of CRISPR-based genome editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jennifer-doudna-delivering-the-future-of-crispr-based-genome-editing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nobel laureate details new applications at Kuh Distinguished Lecture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/innovativegenomics.org\/people\/jennifer-doudna\/\">Jennifer Doudna<\/a>, Nobel laureate and Li Ka Shing Chancellor\u2019s Chair and Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, presented this year\u2019s Ernest S. Kuh Distinguished Lecture, \u201cDelivering the Future of CRISPR-Based Genome Editing,\u201d on February 2 at UC Berkeley. The sold-out event \u2014 produced by Berkeley Engineering in collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/swe.berkeley.edu\/\">Society of Women Engineers<\/a> \u2014 marks the 11th talk in the lecture <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.berkeley.edu\/events\/ernest-s-kuh-distinguished-lecture-series\/\">series<\/a>, which features scientists and engineers tackling the world\u2019s most pressing problems.<\/p>\n<p>Doudna is known for developing CRISPR-Cas9, a groundbreaking technology that some call \u201cgenetic scissors.\u201d With it, scientists can snip and edit DNA \u2014 the genetic code of life \u2014 unlocking remarkable possibilities in biology, including treatments for thousands of intractable diseases. This work has changed the course of genomics research, allowing scientists to rewrite DNA with unprecedented precision, and won Doudna and collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel laureate details new applications at Kuh Distinguished Lecture. Jennifer Doudna, Nobel laureate and Li Ka Shing Chancellor\u2019s Chair and Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, presented this year\u2019s Ernest S. Kuh Distinguished Lecture, \u201cDelivering the Future of CRISPR-Based Genome Editing,\u201d on February 2 at UC Berkeley. The sold-out [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,19,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}