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Discovery of Science Scissors Shapes Genetics
In 2020, Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, alongside Emmanuelle Charpentier, Ph.D., for the development of CRISPR-Cas9, a method for genome editing.