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With the pioneers of CRISPR gene editing technology just winning the Nobel prize in chemistry, Yiping Qi, associate professor at the University of Maryland (UMD), has received three new grants as a preeminent leader in enhancing CRISPR technologies in plants and crops. CRISPR is often thought of as “molecular scissors” used to cut DNA so that a certain trait can be removed, replaced, or edited for precision breeding purposes.

A range of unusual factors makes calling the 2020 presidential election more dicey for broadcasters than normal, a Merrill College of Journalism expert says. (Illustration by Shutterstock)