Breaking: The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for developing CRISPR What a fantastic week for the CRISPR field! The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences yesterday awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Drs. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna. The pair received the honourable prize for discovering the full potential of the naturally occuring CRISPR/Cas9 system that has revolutionised how researchers work within molecular biology. Read our short story about the rapid road from discovery to Nobel Prize in less than 10 years. |