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Pioneers of revolutionary CRISPR gene editing win chemistry Nobel

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna share the award for developing the precise genome-editing technology.
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  1. Heidi Ledford
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It’s CRISPR. Two scientists who pioneered the revolutionary gene-editing technology are the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Nature 586, 346-347 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02765-9

Additional reporting by Emma Stoye.

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