Imgene

08/10/2020

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 to

Emmanuelle Charpentier
Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, Germany

Jennifer A. Doudna
University of California, Berkeley, USA

“for the development of a method for genome editing”

08/10/2020

https://youtu.be/1CSYHLTPVzg

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing." ...

04/08/2020

Looking forward to our next "IMGENE Summer School"! We are happy to invite you to attend and participate in these masterclasses exploring the prospects and challenges of translational science.
Dates: September 1 - 3, 2020
Registration: https://forms.gle/uJeB8yYtMTynvdxa7

17/02/2020

CRISPR in Drug Discovery 2020

The second CRISPR in Drug Discovery: From Targets to Therapeutics meeting will be held at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge, 4th and 5th March 2020. Genome Engineering, including zinc-finger nucleases, TALENs and most recently CRISPR/Cas9, has become a powerful tool in the drug discovery pipeline. T...

27/01/2020

Have a look at a new interesting paper from one of our IMGENE fellows.
Exploring a new approach to "Expand the editable genome".
A cutting-free strategy (In-trans paired nicking) implement CRISPR-Cas9 veratility!

Abstract. Genome editing typically involves recombination between donor nucleic acids and acceptor genomic sequences subjected to double-stranded DNA breaks (D

24/01/2020

https://www.bric.ku.dk/newslist/news/2020/outreach-successfully-introducing-the-world-of-crispr-at-srp-high-school-course-2020/?utm_campaign=838133_BRICnews_20200124&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Main+list+-+Live+data-All_Users

On 14-15 January 2020, 13 students from Danish high schools across the country participated in the two-day SRP course. The SRP high school course is an annual event hosted by BRIC and this year the theme of the course was CRISPR.

13/12/2019

Here is the last paper of the month of the 2019 👨‍🔬🎄👩‍🔬: Improved Cas9 activity by specific modifications of the tracrRNA

Improved Cas9 activity by specific modifications of the tracrRNA Tristan Scott, Ryan Urak, Citradewi Soemardy & Kevin V. Morris

25/10/2019

Each of these handprints were made by researchers and staff who all engage in the daily fight against cancer through research!

23/10/2019

Check out this paper of month October on the IMGENE webpage: Super-mendelian inheritance mediated by CRISPR-Cas9 in the female mouse germline

Super-mendelian inheritance mediated by CRISPR-Cas9 in the female mouse germline Hannah A. Grunwald1,5, Valentino M. Gantz1,5, Gunnar Poplawski2,4,5, Xiang-Ru S. Xu1, Ethan Bier1,3 and Kimberly L. Cooper1,3*

17/09/2019

IMGENE summer meeting 2019 in Porto Great succes! Good feedback from project officer Julien Giordani and rewiever Chiara Bovolenta