Tag: Nobel prize

• The Man Who Wrote the Book on CRISPR and What He Taught Me

  February 9, 2021

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  Kevin Davies literally wrote the book on CRISPR, the revolutionary new gene editing technology that earned Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier a Nobel Prize a few months ago. Today, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a talk he gave on that superb book, Editing Humanity. If you’re not familiar,…

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• What I Learned From James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA

  February 9, 2021

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  We wish to suggest a structure for the salt deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest. So begins the famous Nature paper by James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered the structure of DNA in 1953. Their discovery revolutionized biology and won…

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• What I Just Learned From a Discussion With Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna

  January 15, 2021

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  Today I attended a fascinating discussion of the movie Human Nature, a documentary on CRISPR gene editing. Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna, the co-inventor of CRISPR, gave us her perspective on the technology. Author Walter Isaacson and the filmmaker, Adam Bolt, also gave valuable insights. Isaacson framed the moment well,…

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