If Andrea Ghez had listened to her critics, one of the galaxy’s greatest mysteries might yet remain unsolved. The UCLA astronomer won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for proving the existence of a ...

"With the honorary doctorate of the University of Vienna, Emmanuelle Charpentier receives a highly deserved award from the ...

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It earned Doudna and her fellow lead researcher Emmanuelle Charpentier the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. “I remember thinking… when we publish this paper, it’s like firing the starting gun ...

Jennifer Doudna shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Emmanuelle Charpentier “for the development of a method for genome editing.” The method, known as CRISPR, is used to selectively modify ...

It earned Doudna and her fellow lead researcher Emmanuelle Charpentier the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. “I remember thinking… when we publish this paper, it’s like firing the starting gun at a race, ...