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> That is one of the most incredible things I have ever read.

This is even more great reading behind the above:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Doudna



A rare case where the list of awards she's received is so long it needs a separate Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_honors_rece...


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I assign only the most nefarious motives to those clowns, but at least her govt profile is intact:

https://www.lbl.gov/people/excellence/nobelists/jennifer-dou...

The fact that this treatment "built on decades of federally funded research" is the scary part, given that such funding may disappear.


Hopefully only until the next administration.


This seems like a non sequitur.


Walter Isaacson's book "The Code Breaker" is about this subject. I couldn't put it down.


All his books are like that. The Innovators is my personal favorite.


A darker passage in the history of gene editing, but still an interesting story and something not to forget:

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-death-of...



They shared the Nobel prize for CRISPR. Yet you chose to lead with the American one. :/


That's because the link I shared immediately cites Doudna and Charpentier as a team.

After edits were disabled, I thought perhaps there's a page for Charpentier too, which there was, but later than i could edit.

They're both amazing scientists.


She's got a couple of great appearances on RadioLab.




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