2020General sourceWell documented
CRISPR gene editing wins the Nobel
On the timeline · around 2020 ·
What happened
Charpentier and Doudna won the Chemistry Nobel for CRISPR-Cas9, a precise and cheap tool for editing DNA.
Why it matters
Made rewriting the genome routine in labs — and, by 2023, an approved human therapy.
Sources
- The Nobel Foundation. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 (CRISPR) (2020) · General source