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The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Frenchwoman Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer Doudna for their work on DNA.
One more prestigious award for the Frenchwoman, microbiologist, geneticist and biologist, co-discoverer in 2012 with her colleague from the United States of "molecular scissors".
A revolutionary and very effective tool to neutralize, replace or modify a gene in any living organism, human, animal or plant.
A "tool to rewrite the code of life", underlined the jury in Stockholm when announcing the award.
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Indicted for the murder of Maëlys, Nordahl Lelandais was finally placed under the status of assisted witness in the investigation into the possible rape of the little girl, killed at the end of August 2017 in Pont-de-Beauvoisin (Isère).
The Grenoble prosecutor's office called for his indictment, after the confidences of a fellow detainee of Nordahl Lelandais, to whom he allegedly said he had raped the girl.
The status of assisted witness means that there are clues that might suggest his guilt, but not enough "serious or concordant clues" to justify his indictment.
The Bobigny public prosecutor's office (Seine-Saint-Denis) requested that three of the four police officers indicted in the Théo case, named after this young man seriously injured during a police check in 2017, be referred to the assizes. prosecution, which dismissed the qualification of "aggravated rape", requested the dismissal of one of the agents for "willful violence with a weapon by a person holding public authority having resulted in mutilation or permanent partial disability", considering that " the constituent elements of the crime of rape were not met ”.
Is the last French hostage in the world about to be released?
After very encouraging signs Tuesday evening, and the joy of her family, the greatest vagueness surrounds the situation of Sophie Pétronin, humanitarian retained for four years in Mali.
This morning, his son said “he has no news from his mother”, while neither the French authorities nor the Malian government have yet confirmed the information of a release.
The unusual info
King of the Dinosaurs $ 31.8 million: One of the world's most complete T-Rex specimens was sold in a sale hosted by Christie's House in New York on Tuesday.
He is a collector who literally broke his piggy bank to afford the skeleton of Stan, “king of the tyrant lizards”, discovered in South Dakota in 1987.