CRISPR

UC Berkeley professor Jill Banfield was awarded the 2023 van Leeuwenhoek Medal from the Royal Netherlands Society for Microbiology, making Banfield the first woman to receive the medal.

On Monday, scientists at UC Berkeley's Doudna Lab published research on a new system for targeting RNA sequences using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, or CRISPR, an adaptive immune system present in bacteria, paving the way for additional research and potential medical use.

In a huge scientific milestone, scientists at the Innovative Genomics Institute harnessed a new CRISPR technology that can be used to engineer bacteriophages, a long-time challenge due to diverse defense systems that protect their genomes. 

Researchers at UC Berkeley and UCSF’s  Innovative Genomics Institute, or IGI, have found the diversity of CRISPR gene editors in viruses goes far beyond what they expected, possibly leading to new ways of editing genomes. 

Researchers at UC Berkeley’s Hsu Lab identified human lung proteins that can either promote or restrict infection from SARS-CoV-2.

The Innovative Genomics Institute will begin a research program using CRISPR gene-editing technology for carbon removal, according to a Tuesday press release.

The U.S. Patent Office ruled Monday that patents for some CRISPR technologies do not belong to the university and other partner institutions.

Highly-promising and revolutionary, CRISPR technology has changed the prospects of modern medicine. According to a UC Berkeley study, however, it may also be changing the role of researchers and scientists.

A study from UC Berkeley researchers suggests that transposons, previously referred to as ‘junk DNA,’ are required for the development of mice.