Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna win Nobel chemistry prize for CRISPR research

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on CRISPR, a method for editing genes.

They discovered one of gene technology's sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. Using these, researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants and micro-organisms with extremely high precision.Before

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