CRISPR will have to wait for that Nobel prize

A bunch of Nobel awards went out to recipients today, but the inventors of the gene-editing breakthrough CRISPR were not among them. The mechanism to snip out unwanted genes seemed the discovery of the century and two of the scientists behind this breakthrough, Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna and her colleague now at Berlin’s Max Plank Institute, Emmanuel Charpentier, were up for the… Read More...