Nobel 2020. The biochemists Emmanuelle Charpentier, French, and Jennifer A. Doudna, from the United States, were awarded the most important prize in science with equal merit and with the following motivation: “For the development of a method for genome editing.” What did these two scientists discover and develop? Genetic scissors that make it possible to modify DNA and practice previously impossible therapies: Crispr-Cas9 technology.
