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Elitza Deltcheva

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  • The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners
    Emmanuelle Charpentier

    With the assistance of Elitza Deltcheva, who had been a graduate student in Charpentier’s laboratory in Vienna, Charpentier showed how the CRISPR system could cut and modify DNA at specific locations in the genome. In particular, Deltcheva provided evidence that tracrRNA and CRISPR RNA interact to guide Cas9 to…

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    With the assistance of Elitza Deltcheva, who had been a graduate student in Charpentier’s laboratory in Vienna, Charpentier showed how the CRISPR system could cut and modify DNA at specific locations in the genome. In particular, Deltcheva provided evidence that tracrRNA and CRISPR RNA interact to guide Cas9 to…

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