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Charpentier and Doudna win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Charpentier and Doudna win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for developing CRISPR-Cas9 as a genome-editing method, the first science Nobel shared by two women.
Hallbauer & Fioretti / Eva-Maria Diehl The Nobel committee recognised Charpentier and Doudna's 2012 work reprogramming CRISPR-Cas9 as a genome-editing method, describing it as one of gene technology's sharpest tools. It was the first Nobel Prize in the sciences shared by two women, awarded within a decade of the discovery it honoured, a notably short gap that reflected how quickly CRISPR had reshaped biology, agriculture and medicine.
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