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August 6, 2020

2Blades Foundation, Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, and UC Berkeley to Collaborate on Advanced Gene Editing to Fight Plant Disease in Wheat

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July 31, 2020

Mammoth Biosciences Among Winners of NIH’s ‘Shark Tank’ for Covid-19 Tests

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July 27, 2020

Phase 3 Trial Launched to Test Cabometyx-Tecentriq in Advanced Kidney Cancer

https://immuno-oncologynews.com/2020/07/27/exelixis-launches-phase-3-tri...

July 23, 2020

Nurix Therapeutics Announces Pricing of $209 Million Initial Public Offering

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July 15, 2020

Biotech Company Developing Sustainable Dyes Wins Female Founders Competition

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July 13, 2020

Berkeley Lights Sets IPO Terms, Could be Valued at Up to $1.1 Billion

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/berkeley-lights-sets-ipo-terms-could-b...

June 25, 2020

New Data Zooms in on Air Pollution Mapped by Google Street View Cars

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June 20, 2020

A New Test Can See -- Almost Literally -- Infectious Bacteria

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June 17, 2020

As We Wait for a Vaccine, Scientists Work to Scale Up the Best COVID-19 Antibodies to Give New Patients

https://leapsmag.com/as-we-wait-for-a-vaccine-scientists-work-to-scale-u...

May 20, 2020

Mammoth Biosciences Collaborates with GSK Consumer Healthcare to Develop COVID-19 Test Using CRISPR-Based Platform

https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=259386

May 12, 2020

Tenaya Therapeutics to Present Preclinical Data at American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy Meeting

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May 8, 2020

2Blades’ TALENs gene-editing tool improves disease resistance in food crops

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April 16, 2020

New CRISPR-Based COVID-19 Test Kit Can Diagnose Infection in Less Than an Hour

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/04/417181/new-crispr-based-covid-19-test-...

March 31, 2020

Mobile Sensing Network Tracks Shrinking Carbon Footprint During Shelter-in-Place

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FDA Accepts Investigational New Drug Application for CRISPR/Cas9-Based Sickle Cell Disease Therapeutic Candidate Developed Under Collaboration with Intellia Therapeutics

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March 30, 2020

Y Combinator Fast-Tracks Funding for Startups Working on COVID-19 Initiatives

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March 19, 2020

Startups Changing the Face of Fashion

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February 28, 2020

Researchers Worldwide are Using Berkeley Lights' Beacon Platform To Combat COVID-19

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/researchers-worldwide-are-using...

February 24, 2020

How to Build a Genome

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February 14, 2020

Horizon Discovery, Mammoth Biosciences Sign Second CRISPR Tools Development Agreement

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