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Press release from UC Berkeley News:
November 12, 2021
A new paper in the journal Ethics and Human Research co-authored by Berkeley Public Health Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities Jodi Halpern and Lecturer Sharon E. O'Hara, among others, explores how scientists perceive the potential of CRISPR technology and how the transition of many researchers from bench science (making new discoveries in the lab) to translational science (using these new discoveries to create novel medical treatments) may affect the treatment of those with genetic conditions.
CRISPR, which stands for "clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats," is a genome editing technology for which UC Berkeley's Professor Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel prize. "The technology allows precise edits to the genome and has swept through laboratories worldwide since its inception in the 2010s. It has countless applications: researchers hope to use it to alter human genes to eliminate diseases; create hardier plants; wipe out pathogens, and more," reported the journal Nature.
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