The impression sometimes created among the public is that scientists are working away in their labs, and maybe they’re not always thinking about the implications of their work. But we are. Jennifer Doudna Read Quote
Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don’t know the answer. Jennifer Doudna Read Quote
There’s already a lot of active research going on using the Crispr technology to fix diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy or cystic fibrosis or Huntington’s disease. They’re all diseases that have known genetic causes, and we now have the technology that can repair those mutations to provide, we hope, patients with a normal life. Jennifer Doudna Read Quote
One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I’d like to see that change by walking the walk. Jennifer Doudna Read Quote
I think that for a lot of women there’s a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields. Jennifer Doudna Read Quote
In the past, when we’ve tried gene therapy, we haven’t had tools that have allowed targeted gene correction. Jennifer Doudna Read Quote
I was kind of a nerdy, geeky type. And I loved math. People teased me about it. I felt pretty much like an outcast. Jennifer Doudna Read Quote
One can envisage taking cells from a patient with sickle-cell anaemia or an inherited blood disorder and using the Cas9 system to fix the underlying genetic cause of the disease by putting those cells back into the patient and allowing them to make copies of themselves to support the patient’s blood. Jennifer Doudna Read Quote
