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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 ...
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 ...
Aera Therapeutics is launching with $193 million to develop a new nanoparticle technology to deliver genetic medicines to hard-to-reach parts of the body. Months before Feng Zhang met with a trio ...
At the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, Dr. Feng Zhang discovers and develops gene-editing systems that can be harnessed as research tools and ...
But within the ivory tower of academia, it was clear something big was building, as requests for the technology poured in from other researchers and Zhang set up an assembly line in his laboratory ...
Another potentially game-changing discovery has come out of the lab of Feng Zhang, PhD. This time, they uncovered the first programmable RNA-guided system in eukaryotes. Just a few months ago ...