CRISPR-Cas9

Forbes 50 Over 50 list featured two members of the UC Berkeley community to recognize the impact of their work.

UC Berkeley will auction two nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, relating to Nobel Prize-winning inventions for the funding of future research and innovation.

Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley professor of chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology, was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for developing the gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9.

UC Berkeley researchers and their collaborators found hundreds of relatively large viruses with genome sizes thought to only be characteristic of living organisms.

UC Berkeley professor of molecular and cell biology and of chemistry Jennifer Doudna has been awarded the 2020 Wolf Prize in Medicine for her discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued the UC system's 20th CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology patent with the arrival of the new year, according to a press release by Berkeley News.

This month, UC Berkeley scientists genetically modified fruit flies using CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology, granting the flies immunity to toxic milkweed and allowing them to use the toxins from the milkweed as a defense mechanism against predators.

The UC system was awarded a patent Tuesday, marking the university's 16th patent for the CRISPR-Cas9 patent portfolio — the highest number in the country.

An error in the UK Biobank resulted in a request for the retraction of a UC Berkeley professor's paper with implications on past CRISPR research Friday.

The UC system and partners University of Vienna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded a 12th patent for the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology.