New from IGI's @urnov.bsky.social and Danaher's Sadik Kassim ⬇️

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Chemistry Nobel Laureates Jennifer Doudna, David MacMillan, and Omar Yaghi on failure, success, and how "good chemistry" leads to good science! Read here: https://ow.ly/yQA250YN8N0

The Hardest Problem AI Ever Solved, with Google DeepMind CEO YouTube video by Cleo Abram

From one Nobel Laureate to another: Jennifer Doudna asks Demis Hassabis about how close we are to integrating #AI technologies with #CRISPR therapies for genetic diseases. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0gE...

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This Thursday, April 16 at 10:30 AM Pacific, Addmore Shonhai of University of Venda will give a seminar on heat shock proteins and infections, and the potential to target Hsp70 as a #malaria treatment. Join us in Berkeley or on Zoom! More info here: https://ow.ly/3vPa50YItgn

Opinion | This May Be the Most Important Medical Story of the Decade

Another breakthrough at Penn Medicine! This May Be the Most Important Medical Story of the Decade www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/o...

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Out recently in @natbiotech.nature.com — first authors
@ddingding.bsky.social and @evangroover.bsky.social premier a cell-based method for understanding how #photosynthesis genes can be turned "up" or "down". Read here: ow.ly/KHWg50YyWbR

New preprint from Dave Savage (Savage Lab) and Yun S. Song: Deep models of protein evolution in time generate realistic evolutionary trajectories and functional proteins. Read here: https://ow.ly/iJk950YCF8q

#AI #AIresearch

Coming up today at 2 PM. Join is in Berkeley or online!

Coming up next month, a photo exhibit at SF MOMA will feature female founders, including IGI entrepreneurial fellowship alums Derfogail Delcassion (pictured) and Judee Sharon! Learn more or get tickets: https://luma.com/diversify-sfmoma

Title slide for IGI Seminar Series on International Collaboration and Research Security by Judy Chock from UCB Research Administration & Compliance.

Coming up Tuesday, April 7 at 2 PM Pacific — UC Berkeley's Judy Chock will be giving a seminar on research security and international collaboration. Join us in Berkeley or on Zoom: https://ow.ly/bg2650YCF4s

New preprint on looking at DNA modifications in microbes found in metagenomic data sets! From IGI's @archaeaologist.bsky.social and Jill Banfield (@banfieldlab.bsky.social)!

New in Nature Communications from IGI's Patrick Shih & collaborators at the Joint BioEnergy Institute: Causes and consequences of experimental variation in Nicotiana benthamiana transient expression. Read here: https://ow.ly/s0r350YzraK

In two new publications, researchers from IGI are creating ways to harness #TnpBs — a group of "jumping genes"— as a novel tool for #GenomeEditing, in humans & plants. Learn more about TnpBs and their advantages in a new article from Serene Cheng: https://innovativegenomics.org/news/what-are-tnpbs/

Coming up tomorrow (Wed). Join us in Berkeley!

👁️👁️ In a new paper, IGI's Niren Murthy & collaborators use #CRISPR to attack melanoma in the eye. Read more: https://ow.ly/Is3l50Yzr6V

@banfieldlab.bsky.social @innovativegenomics.bsky.social

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The latest on #CRISPR in #ClinicalTrials, including testing treatments for high cholesterol, lupus, GI cancer, sepsis, hemophilia, and many many more. Read here: https://ow.ly/s4c150YzswO

*And co-first author @ddingding.bsky.social!

Our oversite -- and co-first author @ddingding.bsky.social!

Out today in Nature Biotechnology — a team of IGI scientists including Brian Staskwicz, Kris Nyogi, Dave Savage (Savage Lab), Peggy Lemaux, & first author Evan Groover premier a cell-based method for understanding how #photosynthesis genes can be turned "up" or "down" https://ow.ly/KHWg50YyWbR

Moi with small Arabidopsis plants Credit: Alison Yin/AP Images for Center for Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2023

In a one-of-a-kind project, IGI's Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) tracks how plants adapt to #ClimateChange, following 30 different sites across the globe. Out today in Science Magazine! Read more: https://ow.ly/tSKA50YyVR5

Promotional banner for IGI Seminar Series on gut microbiome engineering by Mark Mimee from University of Chicago with abstract purple and orange design.

Coming up Thursday, April 2 at 10:30 AM Pacific — Mark Mimee, Assistant Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, will be giving a seminar on gut #microbiome engineering. Join us in Berkeley or on Zoom: https://ow.ly/ak6X50Yyo7L

IGI's Brian Staskawicz and Myeong-Je Cho in IGI's greenhouse with transgenic cacao

📣🍫🍫New paper alert: Stable Inheritance of Transgene and Yellow Fluorescent Protein Gene Expression in Progeny of Transgenic Cacao Plants. Read here: https://ow.ly/NTmp50YxT9r

IGI Seminar Series slide titled 'Leveraging deep disease area expertise to bring transformational medicine to patients' by John Reed from Johnson & Johnson.

Coming up Wednesday, April 1 at 2 PM Pacific — John Reed, Executive VP of Innovative Medicine at Johnson & Johnson, will be giving a seminar on using deep disease knowledge to create transformational medicines and drive portfolio growth. Join us in Berkeley: https://ow.ly/3hyX50YynYF

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Hot off the presses — our 2026 review of #CRISPR in #ClinicalTrials. Read here for the latest on CRISPR for #cancer, #HeartDisease, #AutoimmuneDisorders, #infections, #RareDisease, and more: https://ow.ly/XkI550YxSPv

Coming up tomorrow!

Promotional banner for IGI Seminar Series featuring Detlef Weigel from Max Planck Institute discussing plant imperfection.

Coming up Tuesday, March 24 at 2 PM Pacific — A talk from Detlef Weigel (PlantEvolution 🌱🌾) Director of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, on how genetic conflicts inform the constraints of plant immunity. Join us in Berkeley or on Zoom. More here: https://ow.ly/gzj650YwYN2

Scientists Create Cancer-Fighting Immune Cells Right in the Body A new in vivo CAR-T therapy kills cancers in mice, opening the door to a future off-the-shelf cancer treatment without chemotherapy.

Out today in @nature.com a team of researchers across @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, and Duke University led by IGI Investigator @j-eyquem.bsky.social use #CRISPR — in vivo — to create cancer-fighting immune cells. Learn more: innovativegenomics.org/news/in-vivo...

Coming up today at 2 PM Pacific! Join us in Berkeley on or Zoom.

Decoding mRNA: How AI & Vaccines Cure Cancer | Liana Lareau | Ignite Talk YouTube video by Ignite Talks - Smart Ideas From Around the World

IGI's @lianafaye.bsky.social on using #AI to decode #RNA, for Ignite Talks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUlu...