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Building a Life in Science Through Mentorship and Community
A career in science is built on more than experiments. It can also depend on mentorship, persistence, community and the willingness to keep going when things do not work the first time. In this program, Alex Chaim, principal investigator of the Chaim Lab and assistant professor of cell and developmental biology at UC San Diego,…
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Editing the Code of Life
You may not know what clustered regularly interspersed short palindromic repeats means, but when you see or hear the word CRISPR it all takes on new meaning, thanks to the efforts of UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna and her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, who developed this revolutionary method of genomic editing. Her work has literally changed the…