Seth Shipman is a magpie of biological innovation. He collects useful parts — from bacteria, nerve cells, reams of genetic data — and transforms them into tools that do amazing things. One of ...

Seth Shipman (left) and Alejandro González-Delgado (right) developed a more efficient way to make precise edits to human cells in multiple locations at once.

Shipman's team is working on increasing the number of different recombitrons that can be put into a single bacterial colony—and then passed along to phages.

A team of Harvard scientists led by geneticists Seth Shipman and Jeff Nivala has just developed a fascinating way to write chunks information into the genetic code of living, growing bacterial ...

Seth Shipman (right), Alejandro González-Delgado (left), and their colleagues at Gladstone Institutes closely examined never-before-tested retrons, bacterial defense systems that can be leveraged ...

Claire Shipman said the messages had been said “in a moment of frustration and stress.” ...

Columbia University’s acting president, Claire Shipman, speaks during commencement in May. Photo: Seth Wenig/Reuters ...

But hacking aside, the use of DNA for handling computer information is slowly becoming a reality, says Seth Shipman, one member of a Harvard team that recently encoded a video in a DNA sample.

Now, a team led by Dr. Seth Shipman at Gladstone Institutes engineered a biological recorder —dubbed Retro-Cascorder—that, like an old school camcorder, can capture a cell’s gene expression history on ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted an NIH Director's New Innovator Award to Seth Shipman, PhD, assistant investigator at Gladstone Institutes. The award will support the ...

In a study published in Nature, the scientists reported that they successfully encoded a GIF in the DNA of Escherichia coli bacteria. They did so using the CRISPR-Cas9 system, a revolutionary gene ...

Journal Reference: Alejandro González-Delgado, Santiago C. Lopez, Matías Rojas-Montero, Chloe B. Fishman, Seth L. Shipman. Simultaneous multi-site editing of individual genomes using retron arrays.