November 19, 2025: IJF is quoted in Popular Mechanics on DNA data storage — “All of Humanity’s Knowledge Could Become Immortal Inside a Tiny Device.” (
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October 28, 2025: Jesse Buffington is awarded an NIH F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship.
October 23, 2025: Jesse, Jami, Kuang, You-Chiun, and Kamyab’s retron genome editing paper is published in Nature Biotechnology. Our work is written up in CNS News (,), SciTechDaily (,), and ScienceDaily (,).
September 13, 2025: Alvin, Selma, Jami, Carlos, and Daphne post their Cas13d structure preprint on bioRxiv, revealing the structural basis for target discrimination and activation.