A great event happened about the Nobel Prize and, it will change many things in the history of science, Especially genetic diseases. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing.
They discovered the CRISPR / Cas9 gene clipper, which is one of the most important tools in gene technology. And it enables researchers to alter the DNA of animals, plants, and microorganisms with high efficiency.hhhh
CRISPR / Cas9 gene-editing tools revolutionized the life sciences and provided an opportunity for plant breeding and development, and contributed to cancer treatment.hhhh
Dr. Charpentier and Dr. Doudna both stumbled across Crispr by accident. Dr. Charpentier, a microbiologist, spent many years studying Streptococcus pyogenes, a species of bacteria that causes scarlet fever and other diseases. Inspecting the microbe’s DNA in 2006, she and her colleagues discovered a puzzling series of repeating segments.hhhh
A few scientists had studied these segments since the 1980s, but no one was sure of their function. Francisco Mojica, a microbiologist at the University of Alicante in Spain, gave these DNA stretches a name in 2000: clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, or CRISPR for short.hhhh
Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna became a role model and encouragement for every girl who wants to be successful.hhhh
Charpentier said at a Wednesday news conference that she hoped the win sent a Positive message to the young girls who would like to follow the path of science and to show them that women in science can also have an impact through the research that they are performing.hhhh
CRISPR has already shown promising results for treating several diseases and has also had a Huge impact on editing plant genomes, facilitating several beneficial agricultural applications.hhhh
The CRISPR technology has also shown potential in other areas such as developing disease models and biofuels. We cover the most exciting CRISPR applications in the section below.hhhh
Customizing the Human Race with CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing Technology (The Curiosity Podcast)
In this podcast episode, Dr. Sam Sternberg, assistant professor at the Columbia University & co-author of the book. A Crack in Creation, with Jennifer Doudna, discusses the applications & ethics of the cutting-edge CRISPR technology.hhhh
written by/ Rehab Mohamed
References:hhhh
a) https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/07/health/nobel-prize-2020-winner-chemistry-scn-intl/index.html
b) https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/advanced-information/
c) https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-10-07/panel-to-announce-2020-nobel-prize-for-chemistry
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