On Sept. 18, 2020, Uconn researchers, in a paper published in Nature Communications, validated the clinical feasibility of…
On Sept. 17, 2020, researchers announced a CRISPR-based test developed at MIT and the Broad Institute that can…
On Aug. 26, 2020, researchers announced an inexpensive, sensitive, CRISPR-based tests diagnose two deadly viruses in settings with…
On May 20, 2020, Mammoth Biosciences announced a collaboration with GSK Consumer Healthcare to develop an accurate, easy-to-use,…
On May 5, 2020, a team of researchers at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, the…
On Apr. 27, 2020, Yield10 Bioscience announced that it has obtained a positive response from USDA-APHIS’s Biotechnology Regulatory Services…
On Apr. 16, 2020, Mammoth Biosciences announced the publication of a study demonstrating the power of its platform…
On Apr. 16, 2020, Biogen, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Partners HealthCare announced a consortium that will…
On Mar. 4, 2020, doctors at the Casey Eye Institute at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland…
On Jan. 31, 2020, Mammoth Biosciences announced the company had received a contract from the National Institutes of…
On Aug. 20, 2019, the eleventh U.S. CRISPR-Cas9 patent was awarded to University of California (UC), the University…
On Jun. 13, 2019, the University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley collaborated with GlaxoSmithKline…
On Mar. 13, 2019, Nature published a call for a global moratorium on heritable human genome editing signed by…
On Jul. 27, 2017, OHSU announced that Shoukhrat Mitalipov, an OHSU biologist, had successfully modified defective DNA in…
On Jan. 3, 2017, the Jackson Laboratory announced it had obtained CRISPR licenses from the University of California,…
On Nov. 15, 2016, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued guidelines for DNA splicing. The guidelines set…
On Sept. 21, 2016, the University of California, Berkeley, UC San Francisco and Stanford University joined forces in…
On Jan. 12, 2016, a consortium of industry, government, and academia announced the launch of the Cancer MoonShot…
On Mar. 16, 2013, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) implemented the first inventor to file (FITF)…
On May 25, 2012, Drs. Jennifer Doudna, Emanulle Charpentier, Martin Jinek of UC Berkeley and Krzystof Chylinski of…
On Aug. 9, 1993, Francisco Mojica published “Transcription at different salinities of Haloferax mediterranei sequences adjacent to partially…
In December 1987, CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat) sequences were discovered in the E. coli Escherichia…
In 1986, Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston while deputy branch chief of the Sickle Cell Disease Branch at the…
On Sept. 21, 1983, Sickle Cell Month was officially recognized nationally when the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously…
On Dec. 12, 1980, the U.S. Congress enacted the Bayh-Dole Act (P.L. 96-517, Patent and Trademark Act Amendments of…
On Nov. 27, 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris. He specified…