10/07/2020 | The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences | News

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 - Genetic scissors: a tool for rewriting the code of life

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 to Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, Germany and Jennifer A. Doudna, University of California, Berkeley, USA, “for the development of a method for genome editing”.

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. Using these, researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision. This technology has had a revolutionary impact on the life sciences, is contributing to new cancer therapies and may make the dream of curing inherited diseases come true.

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https://www.kva.se/en/pressrum/pressmeddelanden/nobelpriset-i-kemi-2020

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Claes Gustafsson
Chair of the Nobel Committe for Chemistry
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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