2 scientists awarded Nobel chemistry prize for discovery of "genetic scissors"

Claes Gustafsson (R), chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, explains the achievements of the 2020 Nobel laureates in Chemistry during the prize announcement at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct. 7, 2020. The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to two scientists for their discovery on genome editing, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday. The prize went to Emmanuelle Charpentier with the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Germany and Jennifer A. Doudna from the University of California, Berkeley "for the development of a method for genome editing," according to a press release from the academy. (Photo by Wei Xuechao/Xinhua)