Dos Mujeres Have Been Awarded The Nobel Prize In Chemistry

The American biochemist Jennifer A. Doudna (l) and the French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier, then winners of the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 2016, are together in the casino of Goethe University. The two scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2020. Photo: picture alliance / dpa (Photo by Alexander Heinl/picture alliance via Getty Images)

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the development of a method for genome editing–huh?

Let’s break it down. 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. In other words, this could possibly make the ‘dream come true’ of curing inherited diseases!

A life-changing discovery indeed.

Charpentier, a French microbiologist, and Doudna, an American biochemist, son las primeras miujeres to jointly win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the sixth and seventh women to win the chemistry prize

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