Hutch News

Jennifer Doudna: ‘Curiosity-driven, fundamental science’ underpins Nobel Prize-winning work

Jennifer Doudna: ‘Curiosity-driven, fundamental science’ underpins Nobel Prize-winning work

CRISPR pioneer spoke at inaugural Fred Hutch President’s Seminar, outlined goals for gene-editing technology
Hutch NewsSeptember 23, 2024
Herpes cure with gene editing makes progress in laboratory studies

Herpes cure with gene editing makes progress in laboratory studies

Fred Hutch virologists eliminated at least 90% of HSV-1 in preclinical models of oral and genital herpes and reduced viral shedding in a study published in Nature Communications
News ReleasesMay 13, 2024
Hitting ‘undo’ to cure Sickle Cell Disease

Hitting ‘undo’ to cure Sickle Cell Disease

From the Lieber and Kiem Labs, Hematologic Malignancies Program, Cancer Consortium.
Science SpotlightMay 24, 2023
Suppressing immunity to fight HIV infection

Suppressing immunity to fight HIV infection

From the Jerome lab, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division
Science SpotlightNovember 16, 2020
Targeting a subset of stem cells shows lasting, therapeutically relevant gene editing in blood cells

Targeting a subset of stem cells shows lasting, therapeutically relevant gene editing in blood cells

A new Science Translational Medicine paper is first to report how editing a portion of stem cells with CRISPR/Cas9 is sufficient for long-term reactivation of therapeutic hemoglobin
News ReleasesJuly 31, 2019
Engineering B cells to bypass vaccines

Engineering B cells to bypass vaccines

From the Taylor Lab, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division
Science SpotlightJuly 15, 2019