Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) • 8th April 2024 AI Language Models Allow Researchers to Explore New Frontiers in Bioengineering Joining biology and AI to hack the ribosome.
Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) • 13th March 2024 CRISPR Clinical Trials: A 2024 Update A reader-friendly deep dive.
Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) • 28th February 2024 Engineering Cas9 for Editing the Brain Engineering Cas9 for self-delivery.
Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) • 16th February 2024 Meet an IGI Scientist: Alice Refermat "I would say that we are at a very almost golden age of pushing the boundaries in terms of cancer therapies."
Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) • 2nd February 2024 From California to Kenya: The First Year of the CRISPR Course for African Plant Scientists "My key takeaway is that a lot of what prevents this technology from getting into the hands of the many is infrastructural and regulatory hurdles."
Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) • 13th December 2023 New Research on How Bacteria & Viruses Coexist in the Gut Microbiome Exploring the role of bacteriophages — that is, tiny viruses that prey on bacteria – in the human microbiome.
Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) • 13th December 2023 Meet an IGI Scientist: Kelsey Hern "I got really curious about, first of all, parasites and organisms that infect us, and then also how our own bodies and our own microbiomes protect us against stuff like that."
Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) • 16th November 2023 Early-Life Microbiome Interventions May Improve Health Outcomes for Pre-Term Infants “The general idea is that the microbiome is training our immune system. They grow and evolve together."
Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) • 1st November 2023 High-Throughput CRISPR Screens Accelerate Genomic Therapies "We want to do genetics on a level that normally cannot be done."
Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) • 25th October 2023 IGI Hackathon Searches for RNA Secrets Joining biology and AI to hack the ribosome.
Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) • 10th October 2023 Finding & Fixing Immunodeficiencies with CRISPR “My hope is that my lab becomes the nexus for getting a definitive genetic diagnosis of an immunodeficiency disease and then correcting that mutation using genome editing."
Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) • 3rd October 2023 New Paper Points the Way to Make CRISPR Safer by Avoiding Chromosome Loss "But an equally important safety concern is on-target effects: when CRISPR proteins make cuts at the right spot, but the wrong kind of change occurs."
Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) • 26th September 2023 Women in Enterprising Science Fellows Receive $2 million in Seed Funding Two Fellows receive an award of $1 million in non-dilutive seed funding to support their entrepreneurial pursuits.
Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) • 20th September 2023 IGI Researchers Study How Rainy Season Awakens Bacteria – and the Viruses that Hunt Them "Essentially, dry soil is serving as a seed bank for a huge number of bacteria-hunting viruses that lie dormant as they wait for wet-up."
Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) • 1st September 2023 Meet an IGI Scientist: Yue Clare Lou "It’s fun to hang out with microbiologists because you also talk about making your own kombucha, making yogurt, brewing beer, making wine... I just really love fermentation!"
Rett Syndrome Research Trust • 20th July 2023 RSRT Doubles Down on RNA Editing for Rett Syndrome with Additional Funding to Beal Lab at UC Davis Leveraging RNA editing to develop Rett syndrome therapeutics.
Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) • 6th July 2023 Making Genetic Therapies Affordable and Accessible: IGI’s New Recommendations Solving one of the trickiest challenges for genomic medicines: price.
Rett Syndrome Research Trust • 28th June 2023 Lutz and Liu Dream Team Awarded $23 Million to Cure Four Rare Diseases: Rett is One of Them An ambitious new effort to make CRISPR-based treatments for neurological diseases.
Innovative Genomics Institute • 6th June 2023 “The Crop of the Future”: Why Climate Scientists Are Sweet on Sorghum "When roots are shallow, the carbon is easily rereleased back into the atmosphere. But sorghum’s deep root system can go down six feet or more."
Innovative Genomics Institute • 12th May 2023 From California to Kenya: Sharing CRISPR Tools with African Scientists A pioneering course to empower African scientists to use CRISPR in their communities.