Updated: October 7, 2020 4:04:26 pm
The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and a cash prize of $ 1.1 million. (Twitter / Nobel Prize)
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna on Wednesday for “developing a method for genome editing.”
“Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have discovered one of the sharpest tools in gene technology – CRISPR / Cas9 genetic scissors,” the Academy said in a statement.
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2020 #Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.” pic.twitter.com/CrsnEuSwGD– The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2020
“With these, researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision. This technology has had a revolutionary impact on the life sciences, is contributing to new cancer therapies and can make the dream of curing inherited diseases come true, “he added.
Charpentier, who is French, and Doudna, an American, become the sixth and seventh women to win a Nobel Prize in chemistry, joining those of Marie Curie (1911) and Frances Arnold (2018).
The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and a cash prize of 10 million crowns (over $ 1.1 million), courtesy of a legacy left more than a century ago by its creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.
Professor Pernilla Wittung Stafshede and Goran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Academy of Sciences, announce the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. (Reuters)
On Monday, the Nobel Committee awarded the prize for physiology and medicine to Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British scientist Michael Houghton for discovering the hepatitis C virus that devastates the liver.
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On Tuesday, the physics award went to Roger Penrose from Britain, Reinhard Genzel from Germany and Andrea Ghez from the United States for their advances in understanding the mysteries of cosmic black holes.
The other awards are for outstanding work in the fields of literature, peace, and economics.
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