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ancianita

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3. About time, really. The US's own Jennifer Doudna & France's Emmanuelle Charpentier got the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Reply to hookaleft (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 10:37 PM

Jul 2025

for building the CRISPR(Doudna)Cas9(Charpentier). Even the male chauvinist scientists have now shut up about how 'women can't do chemistry... women can't do science.'

Next up should be other inherited diseases or malformities..

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Wow hookaleft Jul 2025 #1

About time, really. The US's own Jennifer Doudna & France's Emmanuelle Charpentier got the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ancianita Jul 2025 #3

That's interesting Renew Deal Jul 2025 #2

CRISPRCas9 a codebreaking, pathbreaking technology that can do both. ancianita Jul 2025 #4

OMGAWD!!!!!! This is freaking astounding!!!!! a kennedy Jul 2025 #5

K&R spanone Jul 2025 #6

I do not celebrate using a scientific advancement in this way hellofriend Jul 2025 #7

I completely respect your opinion, but not everyone has the resources or strength to raise a child with special needs. Trueblue Texan Jul 2025 #8

I'm raising a child, now adult, with severe Ilsa Jul 2025 #9