Thursday 8 October 2020

Crispr-Cas9: Two Women 'Genetic Scissor Doctors' Awarded With Nobel Prize

Crispr-Cas9: Two Women 'Genetic Scissor Doctors' Awarded With Nobel Prize

The recognized pioneers of controversial gene-editing tool "Crispr-Cas9" are recently awarded by this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna are two women researchers that are recently added to the list of Nobel Prize winners of the world. This tool has been controversial due to its past issues of allegedly altering the genes of two unborn twins in China to stop them from acquiring AIDS.

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