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File photo taken in April 2017 shows Emmanuelle Charpentier (L) and Jennifer Doudna giving an interview in Tokyo. The two won the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a revolutionary genome editing technique. (Photo by Kyodo News via Getty Images)

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File photo taken in April 2017 shows Emmanuelle Charpentier (L) and Jennifer Doudna giving an interview in Tokyo. The two won the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a revolutionary genome editing technique. (Photo by Kyodo News via Getty Images)

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The 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry Goes to... Genetic Scissors

By: Discovery

The 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded this week to two reasearchers “for the development of a method for genome editing."

October 09, 2020

This week, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. These two biochemists worked together to discover the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic Scissors. This scientific triumph has revolutionized life sciences as it can change the DNA of plants, animals, and other microorganisms with epic precision.

Claes Gustafsson, the chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, says, "There is enormous power in this genetic tool, which affects us all. It has not only revolutionized basic science, but also resulted in innovative crops and will lead to groundbreaking new medical treatments.” To specify, CRISPR/Cas9 has changed the way we study cancer treatments and inherited diseases.

These genetic scissors were born during research about something else entirely. Emmanuelle Charpentier was studying Streptococcus pyogenes in Berlin, the cause of many human infections, and discovered tracrRNA. This molecule lives within the bacteria's ancient immune system and it can essentially disarm the virus at a genetic level.

Charpentier then met Jennifer A. Douda, a biochemist and RNA expert from UC Berkeley, and so began their revolutionary and award-winning partnership. Together, they recreated and simplified the molecule in their lab.

French researcher in Microbiology, Genetics and Biochemistry Emmanuelle Charpentier (L) and US professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, Jennifer Doudna posse beside a painting made by children of the genoma at the San Francisco park in Oviedo, on October 21, 2015. Charpentier and Doudna have been awarded the 2015 Princess of Asturias Award for technical and scientific research.. AFP PHOTO/ MIGUEL RIOPA (Photo credit should read MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP via Getty Images)

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French researcher in Microbiology, Genetics and Biochemistry Emmanuelle Charpentier (L) and US professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, Jennifer A. Doudna pose beside a painting made by children of the genoma at the San Francisco park in Oviedo.

Photo by: MIGUEL RIOPA

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French researcher in Microbiology, Genetics and Biochemistry Emmanuelle Charpentier (L) and US professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, Jennifer A. Doudna pose beside a painting made by children of the genoma at the San Francisco park in Oviedo.

Since this discovery in 2012, CRISPR/Cas9 has charted new territory in life sciences revolutionized genetic research.

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna are an international, history-making pair, they are the first two women to share this specific Nobel Prize.

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