Nobel Prize Stories by High School Students. — Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier Dr. Jennifer A. Doudna — The Game-Changing Genetic Scissors — Chemistry 2020.
(This article is a summary of the full-length article Authored by Ms. Mahitha Simhambhatla, Frisco, TX, USA. It’s one of the 14 Chapters written by high school students and published in the PATH TO NOBEL book).
The book can be purchased at -https://www.afhdusa.org/item/5/path-to-nobel
The article “Editing DNA: The Game-Changing Genetic Scissors” by Ms. Mahitha Simhambhatla is a comprehensive exploration of the groundbreaking work of Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Dr. Jennifer A. Doudna, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology.
The author begins by providing a brief background of the two scientists. Charpentier, born in 1968, had a broad interest in science from an early age, which led her to pursue a PhD in microbiology. Doudna, born in 1964, developed her interest in science through exploring the natural world in Hawaii. She later pursued a PhD in biochemistry.
The article then delves into the scientists’ research journey. Charpentier and Doudna met at an American Society for Microbiology conference in 2011 and decided to collaborate on investigating…
