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What is CRISPR, the gene editing technology that won the Chemistry Nobel prize?

  • Written by Dimitri Perrin, Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences yesterday awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for their work on CRISPR, a method of genome editing.

A genome is the full set of genetic “instructions” that determine how an organism will develop. Using CRISPR, researchers can cut up DNA in an...

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