14 Quotes by Jennifer A. Doudna

It’s not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into the human genome.

As we began discussing authorship of a white paper summarizing our conclusions, we debated who our target audience should be and what kind of outcome we were hoping to achieve.

have no doubt, this technology will — someday, somewhere — be used to change the genome of our own species in ways that are heritable, forever altering the genetic composition of human kind.

human gene editing would almost assuredly never have the same catastrophic consequences as the detonation of a nuclear weapon

American spy agencies seemed rattled by the experiments too. I was shocked when the next Worldwide Threat Assessment — the annual report presented by the U.S. intelligence community to the Senate Armed Services Committee — described genome editing as one of the six weapons of mass destruction and proliferation that nation-states might try to develop, at great risk to America.

Editas Medicine has an exclusive multimillion-dollar license with Juno Therapeutics to develop T cell therapies

improving on the natural course if evolution—which, attendees argued, could be so cruel as to justify some sort of intervention.

in 2011, Rachel and I founded a company called Caribou Biosciences to commercialize the Cas proteins.

I'd recently co-founded an institute in the Bay Area called the Innovative Genomics Institute (ICI) with the goal of advancing gene-editing technologies.