CRISPR Pioneer Jennifer Doudna on the Future of Disease Detection

The co-inventor of the groundbreaking gene editing technology talks to OneZero about a world where illness could be diagnosed in minutes

Emily Mullin
OneZero
Published in
5 min readJul 30, 2019

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Jennifer Doudna, a biochemist responsible for foundational work in CRISPR-based genome editing. Credit: UC Berkeley

InIn 2012, scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier published a seminal study describing a tool called CRISPR that…

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Emily Mullin
OneZero

Former staff writer at Medium, where I covered biotech, genetics, and Covid-19 for OneZero, Future Human, Elemental, and the Coronavirus Blog.