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.
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.
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.
Aug. 2, 2016 • ~8 min
Feng Zhang named 2016 Tang Prize laureate | MIT News
Broad Institute/MIT scientist among three honored for CRISPR contributions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sept. 25, 2015 • ~4 min
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