China-born biologist Zhang Feng has been awarded the United States ... work developing the revolutionary gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9. According to the citation from the US Patent and Trademark ...

and Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard—the three discoverers of the CRISPR-Cas9 system’s utility in gene editing—plus dozens of other big names in genome science,” Akst wrote. In ...

The technology at the heart of that discovery is what’s known as Crispr, and Zhang is one of the scientists who pioneered its use in human cells, sparking a flurry of interest in using Crispr to ...

The CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang is launching yet another ambitious gene-editing startup, backed by approximately $200 million from some of biotech's biggest investors. The Cambridge, Massachusetts ...

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Cyrus Biotechnology have now engineered two CRISPR nucleases, Cas9 and Cas12 ... The study was led by Feng Zhang, a core institute ...

CRISPR-Cas9 pioneer presented with National Medal of Technology and Innovation in White House awards ceremony China-born biologist Zhang Feng has been awarded the United States' highest honour for ...