Charlotte Douglas

Genetics

Institut Curie Paris

Dr Charlotte Douglas has a PhD in sex chromosome biology and developmental genetics from the Francis Crick Institute and King’s College London where her expertise was in genetics and new ways to implement CRISPR-Cas9 technologies. She loves to think about how CRISPR tools and transgenics can be modified and reapplied to solve translational problems. She is now a post-doctoral researcher at the Institut Curie in Paris, where she aims to investigate the role and function of RNA methylation. This is a completely new field for her, and she’s excited to dip a toe in a quickly expanding and exciting area of science! Overall, Charlotte she loves understanding how new genome editing and gene therapy tools could be used to progress healthcare science. She would love to connect with others in the science and SciComm world, so please feel free to get in touch!

a pair of roe deer popping their heads up from a field

Photo by Bob Brewer on Unsplash

Roe deer pause development of their embryos for months, and researchers just learned how

An embryonic phenomenon discovered over 150 years ago may finally have an explanation

Charlotte Douglas
Kidney organoids derived from human stem cells growing in a testing chamber

Kidney organoids derived from human stem cells growing in a testing chamber

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Precise CRISPR gene editing can correct the mutation that causes cystic fibrosis in mini-intestines

Prime editing, which edits DNA directly without cutting, restored healthy function in an organoid model of an intestine

Charlotte Douglas

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Biologists grow mouse eggs in mini ovaries developed from stem cells 

The advance could generate new solutions to for human fertility issues

Charlotte Douglas