Jennifer A. Doudna

“It’s not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into…

— Jennifer A. Doudna

“Editas Medicine has an exclusive multimillion-dollar license with Juno Therapeutics to develop T cell therapies”

— Jennifer A. Doudna

“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

“PGD has also been used for other controversial purposes, such as the birth if so-called savior siblings, destined from the moment of…

— Jennifer A. Doudna

“in 2011, Rachel and I founded a company called Caribou Biosciences to commercialize the Cas proteins.”

— Jennifer A. Doudna

“human gene editing would almost assuredly never have the same catastrophic consequences as the detonation of a nuclear weapon”

— Jennifer A. Doudna

“American spy agencies seemed rattled by the experiments too. I was shocked when the next Worldwide Threat Assessment — the annual report…

— Jennifer A. Doudna

“As we began discussing authorship of a white paper summarizing our conclusions, we debated who our target audience should be and what…

— Jennifer A. Doudna

“have no doubt, this technology will — someday, somewhere — be used to change the genome of our own species in ways…

— Jennifer A. Doudna

“can we afford not to use them?”

— Jennifer A. Doudna

“every single CRISPR region had expanded to include a new snippet of DNA spliced between the repeats. Furthermore, these new spacers perfectly…

— Jennifer A. Doudna

“improving on the natural course if evolution—which, attendees argued, could be so cruel as to justify some sort of intervention.”

— Jennifer A. Doudna

“we founded Editas Medicine with $43 million in financing from three venture capital firms.”

— Jennifer A. Doudna

“This book is its story, and mine. It is also yours. Because it won’t be long before the repercussions from this technology…

— Jennifer A. Doudna