Jennifer Doudna is an American biochemist known for her discovery, with French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier, of the gene-editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9. Their breakthrough, in 2012, made it possible for researchers to introduce alterations into specific DNA sequences more efficiently than earlier methods. Doudna and Charpentier shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery and development of gene-editing technologies.
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