{"id":80069,"date":"2020-10-16T07:32:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T05:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=80069"},"modified":"2020-10-13T12:03:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T10:03:46","slug":"nobel-prize-for-genome-editing-pioneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/nobel-prize-for-genome-editing-pioneers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize for Genome Editing Pioneers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Genome editing pioneers Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna\u00a0have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/chemistry\/2020\/press-release\/\" target=\"_blank\">awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020<\/a>. They developed the CRISPR\/Cas9 genome editing system \u2013 a promising technique using genetic scissors to edit DNA with extremely high precision.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is enormous power in this genetic tool, which affects us all. It has not only revolutionised basic science, but also resulted in innovative crops and will lead to ground-breaking new medical treatments,\u201d stated Claes Gustafsson, chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/themes\/the-norwegian-nobel-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nobel Committee<\/a> for Chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of the European bioindustries, EuropaBio wholeheartedly congratulates the genome editing pioneers, and hopes that the prize will increase public awareness and political support for an innovation friendly approach also in the EU\u201d, commented Bernard Grimm, Healthcare Biotech Director of EuropaBio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genome editing pioneers Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna\u00a0have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020. They developed the CRISPR\/Cas9 genome editing system \u2013 a promising technique using genetic scissors to edit DNA with extremely high precision. \u201cThere is enormous power in this genetic tool, which affects us all. It has not only revolutionised [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5796,12636,10408],"supplier":[1829,14989],"class_list":["post-80069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biotechnology","tag-gmos","tag-greenchemistry","supplier-europabio","supplier-royal-swedish-academy-of-sciences-the-nobel-prize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80069"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=80069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}