{"id":40825,"date":"2020-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/07\/u-s-french-researchers-awarded-nobel-prize-in-chemistry\/"},"modified":"2020-10-08T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:10:09","slug":"u-s-french-researchers-awarded-nobel-prize-in-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/07\/u-s-french-researchers-awarded-nobel-prize-in-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S., French Researchers Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Recipients are University of California at Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier of France<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Oct. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; American and French scientists have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work developing the revolutionary gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9.<\/p>\n<p>The award for University of California at Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier of France was announced Wednesday, <i>The Washington Post<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year&#8217;s prize is about rewriting the code of life,&#8221; said Goran Hansson, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>CRISPR-Cas9 &#8212; often described as molecular scissors &#8212; can locate and snip out specific sections of DNA and is being investigated as a cancer therapy and a cure for inherited diseases, <i>The Post<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2020\/10\/07\/nobel-prize-chemistry\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>The Washington Post<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recipients are University of California at Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier of France<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":40857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-40825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}