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Eugene Koonin’s dabbling with Streptococcus thermophilus eventually led him to discover CRISPR before CRISPR was a thing. An evolutionary biologist and senior investigator in the National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Koonin hypothesized in 2005 that “spacer DNA” in the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) loci of bacteria and … Read more

Dr. Bradley Harding is a scientist specializing in DNA-based computing. His research, recently published in the prestigious journal Nano Letters, holds the potential to advance the field reusable biodevices controlled by logical operations. Dr. Harding’s research was co-supervised by the University of the Sunshine Coast’s Dr Joanne Macdonald and Dr Nina Pollak, assisted by collaborator … Read more

The nation’s first CRISPR-based cancer therapy was launched in 2019 at the University of Pennsylvania. The study, funded in part by the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI), is testing a type of immunotherapy by using a patients’ own immune cells that have been genetically modified to better “see” and kill their cancer. In the laboratory, … Read more

In 2015, Yaniv Erlich outlined a concept of an “Internet of Living Things” made possible by a future of ubiquitous genomics. Erlich noted that, “multiple appliances could benefit from integration with sequencing sensors, including air conditioning or the main water supply to monitor harmful pathogens. However, of all possible options, toilets may offer the best … Read more