CRISPR will have to wait for that Nobel prize
October 03, 2016 at 14:25 PM EDT
A bunch of Nobel awards went out to recipients today, but the inventors of the gene-editing breakthrough CRISPR were not among them. The mechanism to snip out unwanted genes seemed the discovery of the century and two of the scientists behind this breakthrough, Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna and her colleague now at Berlin’s Max Plank Institute, Emmanuelle Charpentier, were up for… Read More