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Jennifer Doudna and Alex Marson

Jennifer Doudna is a professor of chemistry, and molecular and cell biology, at the University of California, Berkeley. Alex Marson is an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at UC San Francisco.

Latest articles by Jennifer Doudna and Alex Marson

The Big Idea
Federal funding for basic research led to the gene-editing revolution. Don’t cut it.Federal funding for basic research led to the gene-editing revolution. Don’t cut it.
The Big Idea

Patients in red states and blue states alike benefit from work funded by the National Institutes of Health

By Jennifer Doudna and Alex Marson