IGI's Fyodor Urnov, together with leaders in pediatric medicine from across the nation, suggests a new way forward to speed up and broaden access to cell and gene therapies for sick kids. Read more in Nature Medicine: ow.ly/ajNy50SmOWO

What’s next for Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna and Innovative Genomics Institute? 🧬

How do we take the shining example of Emily Whitehead, cured of her pediatric cancer, and scale it?
Dr. Crystal Mackall Mackall Lab, Dr Donald Kohn The Kohn Lab UCLA, and a team of fellow SMEs across all facets of the problem space offer an actionable path.
#PlatformCures
#HealthJustice

For #Juneteenth — we're reading an important commentary in Cell about the barriers faced by Black researchers in STEM: ow.ly/Q2ac50ShbG9

Check out this video that explains the importance and some details of the work that is currently underway at the Matthias Hess and the Lab of Ermias Kebreab at UC Davis and the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley to reduce methane emissions from cattle.
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Animal agriculture leads to greenhouse-gas emissions. Gut microbes are the main source – but could they also hold the solution? Watch the full video to learn how we're taking on the cow burp problem: ow.ly/VKQ050SlatZ

#microbiome #ClimateChange @ucdaviscaes

Thanks Innovative Genomics Institute for featuring my path to becoming a physician-scientist UCSF Benioff SF and our work on making CRISPR therapies for patients with rare immune diseases! @UCSF Pediatric Scientist Development Program (PSDP) Buck Scholars Association

'We’re trying to accomplish a vision of genome editing that people have been dreaming about for 40 or 50 years, but didn’t have the tools. And now... We finally have the tools.' — IGI physician-scientist Matthew Kan. Read more: ow.ly/vzf550Shalc

#CRISPR

Infant formula lacks complex prebiotic sugars found in human breast milk. UC Berkeley and UC Davis researchers can now make these sugars in plants, a new route to manufacture these health supplements CA&ES, UC Davis UC Davis Letters and Science ucdavis.edu/blog/making-hu…

Coming up on Sunday — the annual Berkeley #Juneteenth Festival! Celebrate the day with musical performances and fun activities (including hands-on STEM activities for kids!). See the full lineup here: berkeleyjuneteenth.org

New research from IGI Investigator @LabsShih shows how plants can be engineered to make the unique molecules in human breast milk — which could be used to make more nutritious infant formula. Read more: ow.ly/2We350SieLH

Hope, despair and #CRISPR — the race to save one woman’s life.

'Doudna’s Innovative Genomics Institute is working to standardize some aspects of genome-editing therapies, in part to make it cheaper and easier to develop such treatments for people with rare conditions.'
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Congrats to MCB's David Savage Savage Lab on his promotion to Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology! 👏🥂 mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-event…

Public input is crucial for decisions about how to use new technologies. Recently, the IGI and @berkeleykcesp hosted a seminar on the UK citizens jury on embryo editing to prevent genetic diseases. Learn more in our write-up from Gaby Díaz-Figueroa: ow.ly/iFjn50Sa9ps

Excited to share this amazing work led by Matthias Hess and Spencer Diamond at Innovative Genomics Institute and sponsored by The Audacious Project. We use multi-omics to show how the rumen microbiome responds to methanogenesis suppression and identify a Duodenibacillus Sp. as an alternative hydrogen sink.

The #microbiome of the cow rumen produces ~30 % of anthropogenic #methane , but how does this microbiome change when methane production is suppressed. Wonderful work by Pengfan Zhang explores this as part of our amazing collaboration with Matthias Hess. #genomics #rumen #microbiology

One of the best and most thoughtful plant CRISPR efforts to date. Rice cis-editing for NPQ and WUE achieves transgene phenotypes without the transgene! Congrats Dhruv Patel-Tupper and team. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Exciting news: the first manuscript from our collaboration w/ Spencer Diamond at Innovative Genomics Institute and our project to reduce enteric methane sponsored by The Audacious Project is now available on BioRvix: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Big thanks to Hope Henderson for the fantastic write-up! 🙌🏼 Congrats to the Clelland Lab for the groundbreaking work! 🎉 #C9orf72 #CRISPR
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A new paper from IGI’s Kris Niyogi – part of work to supercharge photosynthesis! 🌱