STOCKHOLM — The 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to two women who developed CRISPR/Cas9, a tool that allows scientists to cut parts of the genome like a pair of molecular scissors.<br /><br />Emmanuelle Charpentier, 51, and Jennifer A. Doudna, 56, were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday, Oct. 7, becoming only the sixth and seventh women ever to win a Nobel Prize in chemistry and the first all-female team to win the award, according to Science Magazine.<br /><br />Charpentier is the Founding, Scientific and Managing Director of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin. Doudna is a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley.<br /><br />This animation explains how the CRISPR/Cas9 method for gene editing works.
