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8 October 2020AmericasMuireann Bolger

Two female CRISPR scientists win Nobel Prize in historic first

French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier and US biochemist Jennifer Doudna have achieved scientific history by jointly winning the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their seminal work on gene-editing technology, CRISPR.

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