Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of a powerful gene editing tool known as the CRISPR-Cas9 system. In this short film, Doudna, Charpentier, and Martin Jinek, who was a post-doc at the time in Doudna’s lab, describe how their famous collaboration happened and share the story behind the influential experiments that led to their discovery.
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Discovery Story: Genome Engineering with CRISPR-Cas9 (Doudna, Jinek, Charpentier)
Jennifer Doudna, Martin Jinek, and Emmanuelle Charpentier describe their collaboration and influential experiment that led to the use of CRISPR as a gene editing technology. (Talk recorded in May 2017)
Audience:
- General Public
- Student
- Researcher
- Educators
- Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
- Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 00:12:57