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• AquaPulse: Portable Off-the-Grid Water Purification
  Globally, more than 2 billion people are forced to use a drinking water source that is contaminated with bacteria, parasites, and other pathogens, and an estimated 502,000 people die each year from diarrhea as a result of unsafe water. While a majority of the world has access to improved water sources, many are often contaminated;...

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• Research Spotlights
  
  Researchers call for global discussion about possible risks from “mirror bacteria”
  December 18, 2024
• Press Release
  
  A model of Collaborative Ethics to guide translational research from fundamental discoveries to real-world applications
  June 25, 2024
• Awards
  
  Wyss Institute at Harvard University wins BARDA contract to leverage human Organ Chips to advance knowledge and drug discovery for broad range of health security threats
  October 18, 2023

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  CRISPR-Cas9: Safeguarding Gene Drives
  In this animation, learn how effective safeguarding mechanisms developed at the Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School can be applied to ensure gene drive research is done responsibly in the laboratory. These safeguards enable responsible scientific investigation into how gene drives could one day be leveraged for the greater good of human health, agriculture, and...

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  CRISPR-Cas9: Gene Drives
  This animation explains how an emerging technology called “gene drives” may be used to potentially spread particular genomic alterations through targeted wild populations over many generations. It uses mosquitoes as an example of a target species – and illustrates how the versatile genome editing tool called CRISPR makes it possible. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard...