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CRISPR-Cas9

On the right, Jennifer Daudena and Emmanuel Charpentier. Illustration: © Nobel Media. Ill. Niklas Elmehed.

"It was difficult for Emmanuel Charpentier to publish because no one was interested in infectious diseases as long as there was no epidemic"

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This is what Prof. Harmona Sorek from the Institute of Life Sciences at the Hebrew University says in an interview with the Scientist website, who is happy about the decision to award Emmanuel Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna the Wolf Prize last year. Now Charpentier is establishing the Max Planck Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin with high budgets, and is also contributing to corona research
Prof. Emmanuel Charpentier. Courtesy of the Wolf Prize Foundation

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to the scientists who developed the CRISPR "genetic numbers" immediately after the Wolf award

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Gene editing using Crispr Cas-9. Illustration: shutterstock

The Innovation Authority approved the establishment of the CRISPR-IL consortium that combines artificial intelligence technologies to advance the field of genomic editing

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Prof. Emmanuel Charpentier. Courtesy of the Wolf Prize Foundation

The Crisper keys win the 2020 Wolf Prize in Medicine - the reasons for the prize committee

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"Researchers must be willing not only to be attentive to the questions and concerns raised by the public and not be satisfied with trying to repel them, but also to respond to them - even if this means they have to shelve technology that they believe may change the world." Illustration: US Air Force photo by Richard Eldridge.

Scientists are trying new ways to convince a skeptical public

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When the scientists broke the DNA in the gene responsible for creating the red pigment, lycopene, many tomato plants produced yellow fruits - and some of the fruits had yellow (mutant) and red (normal) segments. Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

What is red on the outside and delicious on the inside

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Prof. Floyd Romesberg (right) and research student Yorke Zhang who led the new study at the Scripps Research Institute, along with Brian Lamb (not pictured). Photo: Scripps Research Institute (Photo: Madeline Schmidt)

Scientists have created the first semi-synthetic living creature

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An artist's illustration of the surface of Proxima b, an Earth-like world orbiting the closest star to the Sun - Proxima Centauri. Image: ESO / M. Kornmesser

2016: a fascinating scientific year

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Prof. Virginios Shikshinis, University of Vilnius, one of the discoverers of CRISPR/CAS9. Photo by Vilna University PR

"We researched how the yogurt bacterium protects itself against viruses, we did not plan in advance to develop a gene editing system"

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