Combining AI and Crispr Will Be Transformational
4 months ago

Combining AI and Crispr Will Be Transformational

Wired  

In 2025, we will see AI and machine learning begin to amplify the impact of Crispr genome editing in medicine, agriculture, climate change, and the basic research that underpins these fields. A group at the Innovative Genomics Institute, the research institute that I founded 10 years ago at UC Berkeley, recently joined forces with members of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Center for Computational Biology, and developed a way to use a large language model, akin to what many of the popular chatbots use, to predict new functional RNA molecules that have greater heat tolerance compared to natural sequences. AI can help accelerate the process of development by predicting the best editing targets, maximizing Crispr's precision and efficiency, and reducing off-target effects. It's still early days, but the potential to appropriately harness the joint power of AI and Crispr, arguably the two most profound technologies of our time, is clear and exciting—and it’s already started.

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Crispr Wants to Feed the World
2 years, 2 months ago

Crispr Wants to Feed the World

Wired  

Ten years after its discovery, the implications of Crispr genome editing are profound and far-reaching, and we are only getting started. For instance, following on the heels of the initial clinical trial results, the first agricultural applications using Crispr have recently entered the market: A US Food and Drug Administration–approved edit to cattle genes re-creates a slick coat that is …

Crispr Can Help Solve Our Looming Food Crisis—Here's How
55 years, 2 months ago

Crispr Can Help Solve Our Looming Food Crisis—Here's How

Wired  

These are just a few of the ways humans have been trying to counteract the planet-melting effects of pumping carbon into Earth’s atmosphere for the better part of a century. “It’s hard to say for sure what we can achieve in the next few decades, but I think with Crispr we have a chance to catch up to climate change,” …

CRISPR will bring huge shifts to agriculture, food sectors in next 5 years says founder
5 years, 11 months ago

CRISPR will bring huge shifts to agriculture, food sectors in next 5 years says founder

Firstpost  

Gene editing technology CRISPR has found itself in the news a whole lot since it was first invented and used in living systems in 2012 and 2013, respectively. “In the next five years, the most profound thing we’ll see in terms of CRISPR’s effects on everyday lives will be in the agricultural sector,” she told Business Insider. Memphis Meats, a …

Crispr Makes It Clear: The US Needs a Biology Strategy, and Fast
7 years, 10 months ago

Crispr Makes It Clear: The US Needs a Biology Strategy, and Fast

Wired  

Biology has emerged as one of the most important technology platforms of the 21st century. With the arrival of the gene-editing technology Crispr, biology will soon converge with everyday medicine, big agriculture, and artificial intelligence to influence the future of all life on our planet. I spent the entire meeting sitting next to Feng Zhang, who at that time, along …

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