Genetic scissors: a tool for rewriting the code of life
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 to
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, Germany
Jennifer A. Doudna, University of California, Berkeley, USA
“for the development of a method for genome editing”
Popular information: Genetic scissors: a tool for rewriting the code of life (pdf)
Scientific Background: A tool for genome editing (pdf)
Unfortunately, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown its ignorance about the real discovery of CRISPR. It happened in the '90s in Salines de Santa Pola by Dr. Martinez Mojica.
