2020 Nobel season opens with medicine prize

STOCKHOLM - Breakthroughs in the field of health will be honoured on Monday when the 2020 Nobel season kicks off with the medicine prize, as the world battles the worst pandemic in a century.

No prizes are expected to be awarded this year for work directly linked to the new coronavirus, as Nobel prizewinning research usually takes many years to be verified. The work of the various prize committees is shrouded in secrecy and the names of the nominees are not disclosed for 50 years, leading to rampant speculation.

Two names mentioned frequently are Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the US, for their gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping tool, a type of genetic"scissors" used to cut out a mutated gene in a human embryo and replace it with a corrected version. For Tuesday's physics prize, astrophysicists Shep Doeleman of the US and Germany's Heino Falcke could win for work that led to the first directly observed image of a black hole in April 2019, according to Dagens Nyheter.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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