On Wednesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for their pivotal roles in discovering CRISPR/Cas9, an ancient bacterial defence system that’s been adapted into a cheap and revolutionary gene-editing technology. This is the first Nobel in Chemistry to…
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