Kevin Davies
@kevinadavies.bsky.social
Editor / Author:
The CRISPR Journal, GEN Biotechnology, GEN;
Editing Humanity, Cracking the Genome. New book 2026…
The CRISPR Journal, GEN Biotechnology, GEN;
Editing Humanity, Cracking the Genome. New book 2026…
The NHGRI is finally ready to appoint a new director.
Deadline = 1 week from today.
hr.nih.gov/careers/open...
Deadline = 1 week from today.
hr.nih.gov/careers/open...
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The NHGRI is finally ready to appoint a new director.
Deadline = 1 week from today.
hr.nih.gov/careers/open...
Deadline = 1 week from today.
hr.nih.gov/careers/open...
Excellent story from @faylinphd.bsky.social on the hot news from #ASGCT2025 — @kiranmusunuru.bsky.social and colleagues tailor the world’s first bespoke gene editor to treat KJ, an infant with an ultra-rare genetic disease, heralding a new era in precision med.
www.genengnews.com/topics/genom...
www.genengnews.com/topics/genom...
May 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Excellent story from @faylinphd.bsky.social on the hot news from #ASGCT2025 — @kiranmusunuru.bsky.social and colleagues tailor the world’s first bespoke gene editor to treat KJ, an infant with an ultra-rare genetic disease, heralding a new era in precision med.
www.genengnews.com/topics/genom...
www.genengnews.com/topics/genom...
Join GEN on June 11 for:
"The State of CRISPR & Genome Editing" virtual summit.
Guests include:
Feng Zhang, @urnov.bsky.social , @juliemakani.bsky.social
@nevillesanjana.bsky.social; Alexis Komor & Nicole Gaudelli,
and Beth Shapiro
Registration is free!
webinars.liebertpub.com/e/the-state-...
"The State of CRISPR & Genome Editing" virtual summit.
Guests include:
Feng Zhang, @urnov.bsky.social , @juliemakani.bsky.social
@nevillesanjana.bsky.social; Alexis Komor & Nicole Gaudelli,
and Beth Shapiro
Registration is free!
webinars.liebertpub.com/e/the-state-...
May 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Join GEN on June 11 for:
"The State of CRISPR & Genome Editing" virtual summit.
Guests include:
Feng Zhang, @urnov.bsky.social , @juliemakani.bsky.social
@nevillesanjana.bsky.social; Alexis Komor & Nicole Gaudelli,
and Beth Shapiro
Registration is free!
webinars.liebertpub.com/e/the-state-...
"The State of CRISPR & Genome Editing" virtual summit.
Guests include:
Feng Zhang, @urnov.bsky.social , @juliemakani.bsky.social
@nevillesanjana.bsky.social; Alexis Komor & Nicole Gaudelli,
and Beth Shapiro
Registration is free!
webinars.liebertpub.com/e/the-state-...
Giving away translations of some of my books — please get in touch if interest:
- Breakthrough (1995) 🇬🇧
- Cracking the Genome (2001) 🇯🇵🇵🇹🇪🇸🇳🇱🇨🇿🇩🇪🇸🇪🇮🇹🇸🇦
- The $1,000 Genome (2010) 🇰🇷🇧🇷
- Editing Humanity (2020) 🇰🇷🇷🇺🇯🇵🇮🇹
- Breakthrough (1995) 🇬🇧
- Cracking the Genome (2001) 🇯🇵🇵🇹🇪🇸🇳🇱🇨🇿🇩🇪🇸🇪🇮🇹🇸🇦
- The $1,000 Genome (2010) 🇰🇷🇧🇷
- Editing Humanity (2020) 🇰🇷🇷🇺🇯🇵🇮🇹
May 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Giving away translations of some of my books — please get in touch if interest:
- Breakthrough (1995) 🇬🇧
- Cracking the Genome (2001) 🇯🇵🇵🇹🇪🇸🇳🇱🇨🇿🇩🇪🇸🇪🇮🇹🇸🇦
- The $1,000 Genome (2010) 🇰🇷🇧🇷
- Editing Humanity (2020) 🇰🇷🇷🇺🇯🇵🇮🇹
- Breakthrough (1995) 🇬🇧
- Cracking the Genome (2001) 🇯🇵🇵🇹🇪🇸🇳🇱🇨🇿🇩🇪🇸🇪🇮🇹🇸🇦
- The $1,000 Genome (2010) 🇰🇷🇧🇷
- Editing Humanity (2020) 🇰🇷🇷🇺🇯🇵🇮🇹
The George R.R. Martin among the co-authors on the latest @colossal preprint —
“On the ancestry and evolution of the extinct dire wolf”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
“On the ancestry and evolution of the extinct dire wolf”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The George R.R. Martin among the co-authors on the latest @colossal preprint —
“On the ancestry and evolution of the extinct dire wolf”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
“On the ancestry and evolution of the extinct dire wolf”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Global Observatory for Genome Editing announces a major international summit (May 21-23) in Cambridge, MA:
global-observatory.org
global-observatory.org
March 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The Global Observatory for Genome Editing announces a major international summit (May 21-23) in Cambridge, MA:
global-observatory.org
global-observatory.org
Please join us for our next GEN virtual summit on April 23:
THE STATE OF MULTIOMICS & NGS
Guests include:
- Francis Collins
- Jacob Thaysen (CEO Illumina)
- Clive Brown (formerly @nanoporetech.com)
- Cecilia Lindskog
- Sarah Teichmann
Registration is free!!!
THE STATE OF MULTIOMICS & NGS
Guests include:
- Francis Collins
- Jacob Thaysen (CEO Illumina)
- Clive Brown (formerly @nanoporetech.com)
- Cecilia Lindskog
- Sarah Teichmann
Registration is free!!!
March 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Please join us for our next GEN virtual summit on April 23:
THE STATE OF MULTIOMICS & NGS
Guests include:
- Francis Collins
- Jacob Thaysen (CEO Illumina)
- Clive Brown (formerly @nanoporetech.com)
- Cecilia Lindskog
- Sarah Teichmann
Registration is free!!!
THE STATE OF MULTIOMICS & NGS
Guests include:
- Francis Collins
- Jacob Thaysen (CEO Illumina)
- Clive Brown (formerly @nanoporetech.com)
- Cecilia Lindskog
- Sarah Teichmann
Registration is free!!!
Here's a photo I took of Francis 32 years ago, speaking at the first @naturegenet.bsky.social conference in DC, confirming the rumors that he's heading to the NIH:
March 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Here's a photo I took of Francis 32 years ago, speaking at the first @naturegenet.bsky.social conference in DC, confirming the rumors that he's heading to the NIH:
Excited to introduce today's
THE STATE OF CELL AND GENE THERAPY
the first GEN virtual summit of 2025, featuring an opening keynote from Michel Sadelain.
11 am - 3:30 pm ET
webinars.liebertpub.com/e/the-state-...
THE STATE OF CELL AND GENE THERAPY
the first GEN virtual summit of 2025, featuring an opening keynote from Michel Sadelain.
11 am - 3:30 pm ET
webinars.liebertpub.com/e/the-state-...
January 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Excited to introduce today's
THE STATE OF CELL AND GENE THERAPY
the first GEN virtual summit of 2025, featuring an opening keynote from Michel Sadelain.
11 am - 3:30 pm ET
webinars.liebertpub.com/e/the-state-...
THE STATE OF CELL AND GENE THERAPY
the first GEN virtual summit of 2025, featuring an opening keynote from Michel Sadelain.
11 am - 3:30 pm ET
webinars.liebertpub.com/e/the-state-...
In 1968, Pauling's last word on sickle cell was the outrageous suggestion (in the UCLA Law Review) that SCD carriers (and other genetic diseases) should sport their status tattooed on their forehead
scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling...
scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling...
November 25, 2024 at 4:00 PM
In 1968, Pauling's last word on sickle cell was the outrageous suggestion (in the UCLA Law Review) that SCD carriers (and other genetic diseases) should sport their status tattooed on their forehead
scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling...
scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling...
Writing in @sciam.bsky.social in 1951, George Gray of the Rockefeller Foundation said Pauling’s discovery could catalyze the search for "a small, innocuous molecule" that could prevent HbS from "misbehaving".
That quest continues…
That quest continues…
November 25, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Writing in @sciam.bsky.social in 1951, George Gray of the Rockefeller Foundation said Pauling’s discovery could catalyze the search for "a small, innocuous molecule" that could prevent HbS from "misbehaving".
That quest continues…
That quest continues…
This is Itano at the Sacramento Assembly center before entering the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Among fellow detainees was a young @georgetakei.bsky.social (of Star Trek fame).
Itano was released after a few weeks at Tule Lake to continue his medical studies.
Itano was released after a few weeks at Tule Lake to continue his medical studies.
November 25, 2024 at 4:00 PM
This is Itano at the Sacramento Assembly center before entering the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Among fellow detainees was a young @georgetakei.bsky.social (of Star Trek fame).
Itano was released after a few weeks at Tule Lake to continue his medical studies.
Itano was released after a few weeks at Tule Lake to continue his medical studies.
By rights, the first author should have been Harvey Itano, the gifted Japanese-American physician-scientist who, in the wake of Pearl Harbor, had spent time in 1942 in the Tule Lake internment camp (thus missing graduation).
November 25, 2024 at 4:00 PM
By rights, the first author should have been Harvey Itano, the gifted Japanese-American physician-scientist who, in the wake of Pearl Harbor, had spent time in 1942 in the Tule Lake internment camp (thus missing graduation).
Pauling’s conclusion was undercut somewhat by James Neel’s earlier note in Science suggesting SCD was a recessive disorder.
Pauling sniffed that “Our results had caused us to draw this inference before Neel's paper was published.”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Pauling sniffed that “Our results had caused us to draw this inference before Neel's paper was published.”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 25, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Pauling’s conclusion was undercut somewhat by James Neel’s earlier note in Science suggesting SCD was a recessive disorder.
Pauling sniffed that “Our results had caused us to draw this inference before Neel's paper was published.”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Pauling sniffed that “Our results had caused us to draw this inference before Neel's paper was published.”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
“This investigation reveals, therefore, a clear case of a change produced in a protein molecule by an
allelic change in a single gene involved in [Hb] synthesis.”
allelic change in a single gene involved in [Hb] synthesis.”
November 25, 2024 at 4:00 PM
“This investigation reveals, therefore, a clear case of a change produced in a protein molecule by an
allelic change in a single gene involved in [Hb] synthesis.”
allelic change in a single gene involved in [Hb] synthesis.”
On this day 75 years ago, Linus Pauling published his classic report on abnormally charged hemoglobin in #sicklecelldisease in Science, hence the first “molecular disease”. 🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 25, 2024 at 4:00 PM
On this day 75 years ago, Linus Pauling published his classic report on abnormally charged hemoglobin in #sicklecelldisease in Science, hence the first “molecular disease”. 🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In a 6,000-word guest editorial in The CRISPR Journal, @urnov.bsky.social calls for a #CRISPR revolution of sorts:
"Give Cas a Chance"
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/... [free access]
See also his recent UK lecture (editing the pizza reference for a jammie dodgers ref.):
youtu.be/qlzhcYh7cLM?...
"Give Cas a Chance"
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/... [free access]
See also his recent UK lecture (editing the pizza reference for a jammie dodgers ref.):
youtu.be/qlzhcYh7cLM?...
November 18, 2024 at 9:23 PM
In a 6,000-word guest editorial in The CRISPR Journal, @urnov.bsky.social calls for a #CRISPR revolution of sorts:
"Give Cas a Chance"
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/... [free access]
See also his recent UK lecture (editing the pizza reference for a jammie dodgers ref.):
youtu.be/qlzhcYh7cLM?...
"Give Cas a Chance"
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/... [free access]
See also his recent UK lecture (editing the pizza reference for a jammie dodgers ref.):
youtu.be/qlzhcYh7cLM?...