(Observer Network) According to the official website of Nobel Prize , at 11:45 on October 7, Central European Summer Time (17:45 on October 7, Beijing time), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm that two female scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of their "developing genome editing methods." The two winners will share a bonus of 10 million Swedish kroner (approximately 7.6 million yuan).
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1901 to 2019, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded 111 times. Historically, a total of 5 women have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Nobel Prize official release described that Carpentier and Dodner discovered one of the "sharp" tools in in 2012: CRISPR/Cas9 gene scissors . Using this technology, researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extreme precision.
CRISPR/Cas9 gene scissors can recognize DNA in their natural morphology, but Dudner and Carpentier prove that they can be controlled and can cut off any DNA molecule in a predetermined position.
This technology has revolutionized the impact on life sciences , is contributing to new cancer therapies and potentially making the dream of curing genetic diseases a reality. It brought life science into a new era and brought great benefits to mankind in many ways.
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Carpentier was born in 1968, a French microbiologist, geneticist and biochemist. She is well-known for developing CRISPR technology with Dudner and others. In 2016, he won the Tang Prize Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Award.
Dudner was born in 1964 and is an American biologist and professor of chemistry and molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1997, she is a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
According to Nobel's last wish, the Chemistry Prize is awarded to "the person who makes the most important chemical discoveries or improvements." Interestingly, in addition to chemists, physicists and biologists also frequently appear on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, so the Chemistry Prize is also called the "Comprehensive Science Award".
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry of 2019 was awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Yoshino, in recognition of their contributions in the field of lithium-ion batteries.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry of 2018 was awarded to American scientists Frances Arnold, American scientist George P. Smith and British scientist Gregory P. Winter for their contributions in the fields of "directed evolution of enzymes" and "phage display technology of polypeptides and antibodies."
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