David Liu was named for his groundbreaking gene-editing technique
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/12/19
By: Sophia Yang, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – British journal Natural recently released its list of “ten people who
(Screenshot of Harvard.edu webpage)
mattered this year.” Among them,Taiwanese American David Liu was named for his groundbreaking gene-editing technique which “could one day save lives.”
Born and raised in California, the 44-year-old scientist studied chemistry at Harvard and UC Berkeley. Liu’s father and mother moved to the U.S. from Taiwan to work as an aerospace engineer and a professor in physics respectively.
Liu is now working with the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which published the results of a daring attempt to quickly change the DNA of nearly any organism including humans. The technique was called CRISPR. [FULL STORY]
