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Jennifer Doudna

Also known as Jennifer Anne Doudna, Jennifer A. Doudna, Jennifer A Doudna, J. A. Doudna, J A Doudna, J. Doudna, J Doudna, Doudna

American biochemist

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Jennifer Doudna is an American biochemist who is known for her work on CRISPR, a gene-editing technology that can precisely modify DNA in living organisms. Her research has made it possible to treat genetic diseases and has broad applications in medicine and biology, which is why she is considered one of the most influential scientists of our time.

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Born: 8 Feb 1964
Works: 14

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A Crack in Creation
Achieve for Molecular Biology
Molecular Biology 2e and Achieve for Molecular Biology (1-Term Access)
Loose-Leaf Version for Molecular Biology 2e and Achieve for Molecular Biology (1-Term Access)
Molecular Biology Principles and Practice

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Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: United States
Active from: 1969-07-24

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Discography

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Listeners: 18
Total plays: 19

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 76,845x
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement
· 2009 · cited 57,919x
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement
· 2009 · cited 23,215x
Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities
· 2000 · cited 22,631x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,944x

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Quotes

“I had this impression from the media that science was for old white guys, people who looked like Einstein, that it wasn’t for people like me ...”
“When I was taught biology, we learned about the structure and code of DNA, and we learned about how proteins do all the heavy lifting in cells, and RNA was treated as this dull intermediary, sort of a middle manager ... I was quite surprised that there was this young genius, Jack Szostak, at Harvard who wanted to focus a hundred percent on RNA because he thought that it was the key to understanding the origin of life.”
“... it's kind of a catchy acronym. It stands for Clusters of Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. Oh! Don't make me say that again. ... What it means — what it symbolizes — is an immune system in bacteria that uses sequences of DNA (that come originally from viruses) ... that are transcribed into molecules of RNA that can use a search-and-destroy mechanism in cells to find and cut up virus genetic material”

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date of birth: 1964-02-19
Commons category: Jennifer Doudna
birth name: Jennifer Anne Doudna
name in native language: Jennifer Anne Doudna
affiliation string: University of California, Berkeley

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Jennifer Anne Doudna ForMemRS (/ˈdaʊdnə/; born February 19, 1964) is an American biochemist who has pioneered work in CRISPR gene editing, and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics. She received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Emmanuelle Charpentier, "for the development of a method for genome editing." She is the Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1997.

In 2012, Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were the first to propose that CRISPR-Cas9 (enzymes from bacteria that control microbial immunity) could be used for programmable editing of genomes, which has been called one of the most significant discoveries in the history of biology. Since then, Doudna has been a leading figure in what is referred to as the "CRISPR revolution" for her fundamental work and leadership in developing CRISPR-mediated genome editing.