The French Nobel Prize for Chemistry Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna

Emmanuelle Charpentier, in Spain, in 2015. (archives) -

The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to the French Emmanuelle Charpentier and the American Jennifer Doudna, two geneticists who have developed "molecular scissors" capable of modifying human genes, a revolutionary breakthrough.

BREAKING NEWS:

The 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”

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- The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2020

This award is given to them for "the development of a method of gene editing", with "a tool to rewrite the code of life," said the jury in Stockholm when announcing the award.

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