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[William Flynn Wallace]

CRISPR pioneers win chemistry Nobel
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Two scientists who pioneered the revolutionary gene-editing technology
CRISPR are the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Emmanuelle
Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna share the award
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for
developing the tool that has inspired countless applications in medicine,
agriculture and basic science. CRISPR, short for clustered regularly
interspaced short palindromic repeats, is a microbial ‘immune system’ that
prokaryotes — that is, bacteria and archaea — use to prevent infection by
viruses called phages. In a landmark 2012 paper
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 in *Science*, the duo adapted the system to function in a test-tube and
showed that it could be programmed to cut specific sites in isolated DNA
 more on their website    bill w
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