Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier: Behind the Development of CRISPR Genome Editing

With the announcement that IGI founder Jennifer Doudna shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute, we wanted to look back at the origins of the work developing the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing technology. Since the groundbreaking 2012 paper in Science, the CRISPR-Cas9 system has been used … Continue reading Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier: Behind the Development of CRISPR Genome Editing