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

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

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