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Coveted medal: The Nobel Prize is the highest honor for scientists
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The Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm has announced who will receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year: The award goes to genetic researchers Emmanuelle Charpentier from France and Jennifer A. Doudna from the USA for developing the Crispr gene scissors.
The highest award for chemistry this year is endowed with a total of ten million crowns (around 950,000 euros) - one million crowns more than last year.
Charpentier and Doudna have been hot candidates for the Nobel Prize for years.
The researchers discovered independently of each other that certain bacterial genes are suitable for making tools for genetic manipulation.
The method is used to edit the genome.
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