CRISPR/ Cas9 Scissors

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Recently, the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been won by Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer A. Doudna of America.

. Emanuel is the director of Berlin's Max Planck unit for science of pathogens. Jennifer is a professor at the USA University of California. This is the first time the Nobel Prize in the field of science has been given only to the women's team. He has been awarded for the discovery of the method of genome editing. He has developed CRISPR / Cas9 Scissors

How CRISPR / Cas9 Scissors was discovered

Emanuel, while studying a bacterium called STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES, detected an unknown fragment called tacra RNA

It was later found that J-track RNA is a part of the bacteria's immune system, as well as the finding that this track RNA helps the bacterium to destroy virus DNA.

In 2011 Emmanuel published his Jai study

Later, Emmanuel and Jennifer were able to reject and reprogram the person Ria's Caesar together.

They both proved that she can cut DNA using this Caesar

This Caesar has been called CRISPR / CAS9 SCISSORS, it was discovered in 2012.

About CRISPR / Cas9 Scissors

Full name - clustered Ragulary interspaced short palindromic repeats

It is a family of DNA sequences found in the genome of bacteria.

It is a protein that cuts DNA

It is a gene editing toll in which technology is considered an important tool.

 Research animals using this scissor can alter the DNA of plants and microbes

This technique can play an important role in treating cancer and genetic diseases.

Other Key Facts

> In 2018, a Chinese scientist claimed to have edited the genes of two twins using CRISPR.

> He named this editing process gene surgery.

> In 1911, the first time a woman received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was the woman marie curie

> Marie curie was also part of the 1903 Nobel Prize winning team in Physics