‘I’m proud of my gender’: two women win Nobel chemistry prize – video
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Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have been awarded the 2020 Nobel prize in chemistry for the discovery of the Crispr genetic scissors used to edit the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision.
The genome editing method has revolutionised the field of genetic engineering, with its impact felt across biomedical research, clinical medicine, agriculture and wider society.
The researchers will share the 10m Swedish kronor (870,000) prize announced on Wednesday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm - the first time that two women have shared the prize
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