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Nobel Prize for the chemistry
October 11 , 2020
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- French-American duo Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for the chemistry.
- They are recognised for the development of a method for genome editing- CRISPR.
- The CRISPR is an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, developed in the year 2012.
- It has made gene editing very easy and simple, and at the same time extremely efficient.
- It can used for lot of diseases and disorders, including some forms of cancer, that are caused by an undesired genetic mutation.
- For the first time in History, the Nobel Prize for chemistry has been given to two women jointly.
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