Like every other 12-year-old who saw the movie Jurassic Park, Feng Zhang was awestruck by the dinosaurs. He was even more amazed by the power of molecular biology. Now, two decades later, Zhang has ...
A longer version of this story previously appeared on the website Statnews.com. As the dish of steamed chicken feet clattered onto the table, an impish toddler drummed with her chopsticks. Nobody in ...
Using genetic engineering for personal enhancement is a controversial topic — not to mention, presently, a practical impossibility. But when a group of health care experts gathered on Tuesday to hear ...
Possibly the most famous Boston-area scientist you've never heard of is named Feng Zhang. By any measure — papers, prizes, impact — Zhang is a science superstar, one of the most inventive life ...
A Broad Institute researcher who is one of the pioneers of the CRISPR gene editing technique is speaking out, upon news that a scientist in China claims to have created the world's first ...
Feng Zhang, PhD, institute member at the Broad Institute and HHMI Investigator, has an uncanny ability to be in the middle of (or on the leading edge of) the hottest topics in biological research. The ...
The Boston biotech Aera Therapeutics said on Thursday it had raised $193 million. Feng Zhang, Aera's founder and a CRISPR pioneer, spoke with Insider about his vision for the firm. Aera wants to ...
Akin Akinc was scouring his email spam box last summer, looking for a missing message, when he stumbled across an unexpected email from a quite recognizable name: Feng Zhang. Zhang, one of the leading ...
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 ...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) named Feng Zhang the 2014 recipient of its Alan T. Waterman Award. This award is NSF's highest honor that annually recognizes an outstanding researcher under the ...
Zhang’s project earned the first of many science fair top prizes, winnings that later helped pay his tuition at Harvard University. But despite his success in molecular biology, Zhang opted to major ...