Emmanuelle Charpentier is a French scientist who helped discover CRISPR-Cas9, a molecular tool for gene editing. Working with American biochemist Jennifer Doudna, Charpentier helped elucidate a mechanism for introducing highly specific alterations in DNA sequences. Their 2012 discovery provided the foundation for gene editing and was simpler and more efficient than earlier methods for changing genetic sequences. Charpentier and Doudna shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work.
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