Rewriting the Secret of Life: The Story of CRISPR

Earlier today, the The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing”. CRISPR-Cas9, the technique that brought the duo the coveted prize, has raised excitement and controversy in almost equal measures…