“have no doubt, this technology will — someday, somewhere — be used to change the genome of our own species in ways that are heritable, forever altering the genetic composition of human kind.” — Jennifer A. Doudna Copy Share Image
“This book is its story, and mine. It is also yours. Because it won’t be long before the repercussions from this technology reach your doorstep too.” — Jennifer A. Doudna Copy Share Image
“It’s not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into the human… — Jennifer A. Doudna Copy Share Image
“Editas Medicine has an exclusive multimillion-dollar license with Juno Therapeutics to develop T cell therapies” — Jennifer A. Doudna Copy Share Image
“I'd recently co-founded an institute in the Bay Area called the Innovative Genomics Institute (ICI) with the goal of advancing gene-editing technologies.” — Jennifer A. Doudna Copy Share Image
“PGD has also been used for other controversial purposes, such as the birth if so-called savior siblings, destined from the moment of implantation not… — Jennifer A. Doudna Copy Share Image
“in 2011, Rachel and I founded a company called Caribou Biosciences to commercialize the Cas proteins.” — Jennifer A. Doudna Copy Share Image
“human gene editing would almost assuredly never have the same catastrophic consequences as the detonation of a nuclear weapon” — Jennifer A. Doudna Copy Share Image
“American spy agencies seemed rattled by the experiments too. I was shocked when the next Worldwide Threat Assessment — the annual report presented by… — Jennifer A. Doudna Copy Share Image
“As we began discussing authorship of a white paper summarizing our conclusions, we debated who our target audience should be and what kind of… — Jennifer A. Doudna Copy Share Image
“have no doubt, this technology will — someday, somewhere — be used to change the genome of our own species in ways that are… — Jennifer A. Doudna Copy Share Image
“every single CRISPR region had expanded to include a new snippet of DNA spliced between the repeats. Furthermore, these new spacers perfectly matched the… — Jennifer A. Doudna Copy Share Image
“improving on the natural course if evolution—which, attendees argued, could be so cruel as to justify some sort of intervention.” — Jennifer A. Doudna Copy Share Image
