How development of genome-editing scissors earned 2 women Nobel Chemistry laureate

Charpentier and Gustafsson developed CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors that can specifically separate any sequence in genome

There is almost no prize on the surface of the earth that Frenchwoman Emanuelle Charpentier and the US-American Jennifer Doudna haven’t clung. Claes Gustafsson, chair of the Nobel Prize committee for Chemistry by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, described it as strange if they didn’t ad

```

Members Only

Login or create an account to continue

This article is available to registered BusinessDay readers. Please login if you already have an account, or create a new account to continue reading.

New to BusinessDay? Register now and start reading.

```