The Anna Head Alumnae Hall at UC Berkeley was packed with more than 200 attendees Wednesday evening as Feng Zhang, professor of biomedical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and ...

Aera Therapeutics, a startup launched by the CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang last year to solve one of the biggest bottlenecks in genetic medicine, has laid off a quarter of its staff, the company confirmed ...

Intellia Therapeutics is the latest gene editing biotech to downsize following a dismal year for the industry. The CRISPR company is laying off 15% of its team after pausing exploratory research work, ...

"As CRISPR therapies enter the clinic, there is a growing need to ensure that these tools are as safe as possible, and this work tackles one aspect of that challenge," said Zhang, who is also a ...

It's the go-to phrase for biologists who know more than they're telling. Ever since James Watson and Francis Crick ended their 1953 paper on the double helix by coyly saying "it has not escaped our ...

CRISPR-Cas9 pioneer presented with National Medal of Technology and Innovation in White House awards ceremony China-born biologist Zhang Feng has been awarded the United States' highest honour for ...

Feng Zhang is a core institute member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, as well as an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, co-director of the K. Lisa Yang and ...