Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Genetic Scissors

by | Oct 19, 2020 | Blog

Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to two women for the first time. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna developed the gene editing tool CRISPR-cas9 genetic scissors. These scissors allow for cutting the genetic code as you would cut a film strip.

This tool is fast, cheap and effective.

There is potential to manipulate patients’ immune system  to recognise cancer cells.

This does however have some less ethical implications, such as “designer babies”. There are more sinister reasons, such as production of embryos in a laboratory to test medicine and chemicals in the name of research.

Read more about it here

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