The Scientist

Engineering the Microbiome: CRISPR Leads the Way

With such striking effects, many scientists see modulating the microbiomes as a promising avenue for improving human health and wellbeing. In recent years, researchers have shown that tweaking the ...
Business Wire

The Audacious Project to Support a New Frontier for CRISPR: Editing Microbiomes to Tackle Climate Change and Chronic Disease

$70M funding will catalyze a bold new initiative led by Jennifer Doudna and Jill Banfield to apply precision genome editing to microbial communities. BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Audacious ...
Forbes

CRISPR: From Discovery To Clinic—And Charting A Path Forward

In the world of biopharmaceutical innovation, 2024 will be remembered as CRISPR’s breakout year. In the spring, five patients with sickle cell disease began treatment with Casgevy, the first ...
FierceBiotech

Sanofi pays Scribe $25M to access CRISPR tools, writing new chapter in its NK cell therapy story

Sanofi has landed nonexclusive rights to Scribe Therapeutics' CRISPR platform of wholly owned enzymes. (Photo by Edward Berthelot/Getty Images) Sanofi has teamed up with Scribe Therapeutics to write ...
Miami Herald

Not too long from now, we’ll be gene-editing our CRISPR kids | Opinion

I didn’t notice earlier this year when, for the second time, a pig kidney was transplanted into a guy in New Hampshire who was getting too sick to wait for a spare human kidney to come his way. It ...