A bacterial immune system became the world’s best genome engineering tool and it can treat HIV. — CRISPR seems like a technology out of a sci-fi movie. Nevertheless, the bacterial immune system first observed 27 years ago allows us to manipulate the human genome in ways that even sci-fi movies had not predicted. The discovery of CRISPR and its function was made in 1993–2005 by Francisco Mojica…

If it’s your first time here, welcome :) My name is Diba, and since the age of 17, I’ve been passionate about creating non-hormonal male contraceptive pills that can soon reach the market. So, over the past year and a half, I’ve been up to some cool projects: I first…

It might not come as a surprise to you that I’ve once again decided to examine the 30-year-old problem of HIV from another angle. Previously, I had examined preventative and curative therapeutics for HIV using emerging technologies such as gene editing. …

Have you ever looked at the bottle of Tylenol in your kitchen cupboard and asked yourself how such a useful medicine came about? …

Proposal created by Simran Mayra, Liesl Anggijono, Anastasija Petrovic, Diba Dindoust. Problem: In the United States, 98% of sexually active women have used birth control at some point in time, and 62% of those of reproductive age are currently using birth control. …

Def. Internship (noun): An elusive world that every high school student should know about. Internships are the best way to gain specialized skills, build your network and if you’re good at your work, find a job. I spent the past summer working at a gene-editing company and figuring out what…

Curing HIV with gene editing technologies. The Problem of HIV In 2019, 38 million people globally were living with HIV. Out of that number, 690 000 people have died from AIDS-related illnesses. In that same year, 1.7 million people became newly infected with HIV [1]. Although Sub-Saharan Africa is the hardest-hit region, where the…

From theory to practice, how anyone can use CRISPR from anywhere to learn about gene editing. Abstract After spending months reading research papers and writing my own articles about gene editing, I wanted to take the theory and put it into practice. My first thought was that I need to belong…

It is estimated that one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. That’s a crazy number. Now, on top of this, women with genetic mutations have a higher lifetime risk of the disease. …