It is a great pleasure for the editorial staff of Substantia to acknowledge the winners of the 2020 Nobel prize for Chemistry: Emmanuelle Charpentier at the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin, and Jennifer Anne Doudna at the University of California, Berkeley, “for the development of a method for genome editing”.

We congratulate the two winners for the discovery of one of gene technology’s cutting-edge tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors.

By this device, scientists can modify the DNA of a living organism with great precision. Hopefully, this advancement will help us to cure some types of cancer as well as some genetic diseases.

8 October 2020