It sounds like science fiction — and until 2012, the ability to cheaply and easily edit strings of DNA was exactly that. But as it turns out, CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing is a completely natural function ...

This week Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a process to edit DNA known as CRISPR Cas-9. But the announcement, which comes amid a ...

Emmanuelle Charpentier, PhD's, contributions have been heralded by the scientific community and celebrated with dozens of prestigious awards. [Kevin Davies, PhD] French microbiologist Emmanuelle ...

It‘s one of the last hot days of summer 2015. Emmanuelle Charpentier sits in her office in Braunschweig, deep in concentration. She taps her foot. The dainty French woman is on the move again: after ...

Jennifer Doudna, PhD, and Emmanuelle Charpentier, PhD, pioneers in the development of CRISPR technology as a “genetic scissors,” have won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. The award was announced ...

It’s CRISPR. Two scientists who pioneered the revolutionary gene-editing technology are the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. “The ability to cut DNA where you want has revolutionized ...

LEOMINSTER — For almost a century, local legend Louis Charpentier called Leominster his home. His love for the city, which was half its current size when he first moved there, was matched only by its ...

Amid the tangle of wood and tools in the basement workshop of his Leominster home, Louis Charpentier carved figures that populated his front yard each Christmas. Over the 66 years he lived on Merriam ...