Who Won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?

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The discussion centers on the omission of biochemist Siksnys from the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to Jennifer A. Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for their groundbreaking work on CRISPR technology. Despite Siksnys's significant contributions to the understanding of the CRISPR-Cas system, particularly his findings on Cas9's cleavage mechanism, his role has been largely overlooked. The Nobel Prize's advanced information highlights that while Siksnys's research shared similarities with Doudna and Charpentier's work, it failed to recognize the critical role of tracrRNA in sequence-specific DNA cleavage. The conversation also references the documentary "Human Nature" as a valuable introduction to CRISPR for non-technical audiences, emphasizing the broader implications of this genetic editing technology.
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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."
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No prize for Siksnys?
 
because his part in the discovery of CRISPR often has been overlooked
crispr-researcher-wins-spotlight]From a 2018 article[/url] - about a prize awarded to him and the two (now) Nobel Prize winners.
Nature has a similar article
 
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biochemist Jennifer A. Doudna(below left) and microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier (below right):

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Netflix "Human Nature" I though was a good intro (non-tech) documentary on CRISPR.
 
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No prize for Siksnys?

Here's what the Nobel Prize website's advanced infomation PDF has to say about Siksnys's work:
Similar 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].
https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2020/10/advanced-chemistryprize2020.pdf
 
Another couple of biologists win the Chemistry Prize.
 
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