The 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry was jointly awarded to two geneticists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for their having developed the "Crispr-Cas9 molecular scissors". This real innovation pertaining to the molecular biology field is principally able to easily, quickly, and inexpensively edit the genome of any cell. Its use in all fields of life allows for scientific, medical, agronomic, and industrial applications both for better and worse.
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CRISPR-Cas9, molecular scissors, editing genome