The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna. It was awarded “for the development of a method for genome editing .” They developed the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. It is considered an important tool in gene technology.
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Published - October 07, 2020 07:01 pm IST