Statement on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

Statement on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

CRISPR illustration depicting a scientist using scissors to cut a strand of DNA

The Nobel Assembly has awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Jennifer A. Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, and Emmanuelle Charpentier, of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, in Berlin, “for the development of a method for genome editing.” The U.S. National Science Foundation has long supported Doudna, beginning with its Alan T. Waterman award in 2000, as well as other researchers in her CRISPR lab. Doudna, an advocate for fundamental ...

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Published October 07, 2020 at 03:10PM
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