Chemistry Nobel goes to gene-editing duo

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Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, and Jennifer Doudna of UC Berkeley, have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on CRISPR. What is CRISPR? The World’s Sarah Birnbaum explains.

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