3Q: Behind the scenes of the National Academy of Sciences' report on human genome editing | MIT News

MIT professor and NAS report committee co-chair Richard Hynes gives insight into the report’s recommendations.

Kelsey Montgomery | Koch Institute • mit
Feb. 24, 2017 ~7 min

Feng Zhang named a runner-up for TIME’s 2016 Person of the Year | MIT News

MIT and Broad Institute scientist shares recognition with four other scientists for developing CRISPR gene-editing systems.

School of Science • mit
Dec. 7, 2016 ~3 min


Targeting genes by the thousands | MIT News

PhD student Tim Wang uses CRISPR to take a big-picture approach to cancer research.

Catherine Curro Caruso | MIT News correspondent • mit
Aug. 2, 2016 ~8 min

Feng Zhang named 2016 Tang Prize laureate | MIT News

Broad Institute/MIT scientist among three honored for CRISPR contributions.

Broad Institute • mit
June 18, 2016 ~6 min

New CRISPR system for targeting RNA | MIT News

Scientists program C2c2, discovered in bacteria as a viral defense mechanism, to manipulate cellular RNA.

Broad Institute • mit
June 2, 2016 ~4 min

Feng Zhang receives 2016 Canada Gairdner International Award | MIT News

Broad/MIT scientist among five honored as pioneers of CRISPR-Cas9 system.

Broad Institute • mit
March 23, 2016 ~6 min

Toward a better understanding of the brain | MIT News

Genome-editing pioneer Feng Zhang hopes his work will shed light on neurological disorders.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
March 22, 2016 ~8 min

MIT, Broad scientists overcome key CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing hurdle | MIT News

Team re-engineers system to dramatically cut down on editing errors; improvements advance future human applications.

News Office • mit
Dec. 1, 2015 ~4 min


New system for human genome editing has potential to increase power and precision of DNA engineering | MIT News

CRISPR-Cpf1 offers simpler approach to editing DNA; technology could disrupt scientific and commercial landscape.

Broad Institute • mit
Sept. 25, 2015 ~4 min

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