Curious layman Posted October 8, 2020 Posted October 8, 2020 Quote Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of CRISPR/Cas9 genetic editing. https://www.quantamagazine.org/2020-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-awarded-for-crispr-to-charpentier-and-doudna-20201007/
joigus Posted October 8, 2020 Posted October 8, 2020 Unfortunately, the pioneer (as I'm told), the scientist who discovered the CRISPR gene (totally irrelevant to the research, I assume) was left out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Mojica
iNow Posted October 8, 2020 Posted October 8, 2020 About a month ago, PBS Nova had a super good special on how this CRISPR advance all got developed and became what it did video should be at the link https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/gene-editing-reality-check/
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