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An industry where gene editing is used to create crops with improved traits like higher yield or disease resistance, mentioned as a key application.
The field of biology and medicine, identified as a critical battleground in the US-China technology race.
The 'scissors' component of the CRISPR system, a protein that cuts the DNA strand at a location specified by the guide RNA.
The full complex of the Cas protein and guide RNA that work together to find and edit specific DNA sequences.
An academic research institute associated with MIT and Harvard that holds many of the foundational patents for CRISPR technology.
The complex and often restrictive environment of patents surrounding technologies like CRISPR, which can hinder research and development. Open-sourcing offers an alternative.
AI models that are freely available, which are viewed as the crucial backstop against monopoly control and censorship.
A type of AI model, analogous to an LLM, trained on genomic data to understand protein structures and predict new, functional proteins like OpenCrisper-1.
The specific AI-generated gene-editing protein developed by profluent bio, which has been made publicly available under an open-source license.
A technology that allows for precise changes to an organism's DNA. Friedberg's new company uses this technology, specifically multiplex editing, to fundamentally change plant biology and dramatically increase crop yield.
A Berkeley-based startup that developed an open-source AI gene editor named OpenCrisper-1 using a protein language model.