CRSPR Existed, But Nobel Prize Winner Jennifer Doudna Used It To Edit Genes In All of Life
She got her Nobel Prize for Chemistry because she was the first to consistently SEE RNA by refining crystallographic methods, then through that photography, study its atomic components, folds, and map RNA to see how it works in the trillion year war between bacteria and viruses.
Without Jennifer Doudna's atomic mapping of RNA, the world wouldn't have been able to use CRSPR to disable the coronavirus. Her RNA work created CRSPR Cas9, that targets, slices and mends genetic codes. It was Emmanuelle Charpentier who read her work, discovered the enzyme tracRNA and collaborated with her to use it to guide the Cas9 enzyme to the targeted gene to be edited.
The Swedish Academy wasted no time crediting them with the means to solve mankind's problems in the world of microbes, and awarded them both in October, 2020.
Biotech will now have a greater future impact than digital tech has had. And women did it -- understanding how life works.
At the 4:00 mark, Emmanuelle Charpentier explains her work.
Walter Isaacson, great biographer of Steve Jobs, Einstein and others, learned from Doudna's lab assistants to edit genes using CRSPR.
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