On October 22, Nobel Prize–winning biochemist Dr. Jennifer Doudna dined with supporters of UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) and the Cancer Foundation of S.B. (CFSB). The intimate, al fresco dinner party at ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures and the Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara co-present Dr. Jennifer Doudna, CRISPR Gene Editing and the Future of Human Health on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m. at The Granada ...

When Martin Kampmann, PhD, set out to explore the workings of the human brain, he was captivated by its greatest mystery: how a network of cells could produce something as intangible as thoughts, ...

Nobel Prize–winning biochemist Dr. Jennifer Doudna is cracking the code of nature to address big issues, using the tiniest parts of us. On Tuesday, UCSB Arts & Lectures and the Cancer Foundation of ...

CRISPR, or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is an advanced technology developed in 2012 that can be used to edit genes. It can be used to find specific DNA sequences inside ...

This figure illustrates the evolution of CRISPR technology from 1987 to 2019, presented in a horizontal timeline format and categorized into four generations, each denoted by a distinct color: The ...

Gene editing has moved from theory to bedside with a speed that would have seemed impossible a decade ago. A new wave of CRISPR advances is not only correcting single mutations in the lab but ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was one of the most serious public health calamities in the last decade, causing global morbidity and mortality in the millions. The emergence of ...