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Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens

Emmanuelle Charpentier's institute in Berlin, studying the bacterial biology from which CRISPR came.

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Emmanuelle Charpentier directs this Berlin institute, which studies how disease-causing bacteria work. It is a reminder of where CRISPR came from: not from anyone trying to invent a gene-editing tool, but from basic curiosity about bacterial biology.

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The Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin, founded in 2018, is directed by Emmanuelle Charpentier and studies the molecular biology of human bacterial pathogens, including the regulatory RNA biology from which CRISPR-Cas9's mechanism was elucidated.

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Written by The CRISPR Atlas editorial team Last updated Aug 19, 2026

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