Nobel Prize for chemistry honors exquisitely precise gene-editing technique, CRISPR – a gene engineer explains how it works
- Written by Piyush K. Jain, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, UF Health Cancer Center, University of Florida
American biochemist Jennifer A. Doudna, left, and French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded this year's Nobel Prize for chemistry.Alexander Heinl/picture alliance via Getty ImagesResearchers have been able to manipulate large chunks of genetic code for almost 50 years. But it is only within the past decade that they have been able...