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- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing."
crispr-researcher-wins-spotlight]From a 2018 article[/url] - about a prize awarded to him and the two (now) Nobel Prize winners.because his part in the discovery of CRISPR often has been overlooked
No prize for Siksnys?
https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2020/10/advanced-chemistryprize2020.pdfSimilar findings were also published in another report using the related CRISPR-Cas system in Streptococcus thermophilus. As in Charpentier and Doudna’s work, this report also demonstrated that Cas9 cleaves within the protospacer, that cleavage specificity is directed by the crRNA sequence, and that the two nuclease domains within Cas9, each cleave one strand. However, the researchers did not notice the crucial importance of tracrRNA for sequence-specific cleavage of target DNA [29].