The New Paper

October 8, 2020

2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry announced

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to two scientists for their work on gene-editing technology CRISPR yesterday. The “genetic scissors” developed by the two women “can change the DNA of animals, plants, and microorganisms with extremely high precision.”

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