Founder and President, Innovative Genomics Institute; Nobel Laureate
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IGI leadership; not directly an author on this study
Plants have used the same photosynthesis machinery for hundreds of millions of years, converting just 1 to 2 percent of sunlight into energy. UC Berkeley's Innovative Genomics Institute has published a method using CRISPR edits to boost photosynthesis protein output by more than 30-fold without inserting foreign DNA.
Updated May 31
Scientific advisor; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 for CRISPR-Cas9
Every approved cancer cell therapy today requires extracting a patient's own cells, engineering them in a lab, and infusing them back. It costs over $400,000 and sometimes takes weeks — long enough that patients' cancer can grow while they wait.
Updated May 30
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