2020 Nobel for Chemistry, 1980 déjà vu
December 8, 2020 | Terry Sharrer
Recombinant DNA and CRISPR gene editing are watershed technologies for the life sciences. But their Nobel Prizes, forty years apart, have something in common. Paul Berg won half of the 1980 Nobel Chemistry Prize for recombinant DNA, but the patent for recombining genes went to Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer. Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won this year’s Prize for CRISPR but the Broad Institute’s Feng Zhang received the patent. MORE
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