JUST IN: 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to French scientist Emmanuelle Carpenter and American scientist Jennifer A. Doudna for “for the development of a method for genome editing.”
in chemistry Wednesday for their pioneering work on genome editing, which has the life-saving potential to be used to cure genetic diseases.
Only five women have previously won the chemistry prize, which has been awarded 111 times between 1901 and 2019 to 183 people.Doudna and Charpentier developed a type of genetic scissor called the CRISPR/Cas9 used"to change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision," according to the chemistry prize committee.
"It has not only revolutionized basic science, but also resulted in innovative crops and will lead to ground-breaking new medical treatments,” said Claes Gustafsson, chair of the chemistry committee, in a statement. “I wish that this will provide a positive message … to show them in principle woman in science can also be awarded prizes but more importantly, women in science can also have an impact for the research they’re performing,” she said.went to American chemist John B. Goodenough, British American chemist M. Stanley Whittingham and Japanese chemist Akira Yoshino for their development of the long-life lithium-ion battery.
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