Interpretation of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to two female scientists on the 7th in recognition of their contributions in the field of genome editing methods

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is an important genetic material.

Gene editing technology appeared as early as the 1990s, but it was once very time-consuming and even difficult to complete

The full name of CRISPR is "clustered, regularly spaced short palindrome repeats", which is a mechanism for bacteria to defend against virus invasion

Compared with the previous technology, CRISPR/Cas9 technology has the advantages of low cost, easy to use, and high efficiency, which makes the pruning and modification of genes "common", so it has swept the entire biological world

Just like the "incidental" that often happens in the scientific field, the discovery process of "gene scissors" is also unexpected

Charpentier published the above research results in 2011

Since then, the use of "gene scissors" technology has exploded

In general, the "gene scissors" technology has opened a new era for life science research and has benefited mankind in many ways