Jennifer Doudna of the Physical Biosciences Division led an international team that discovered a programmable RNA complex in the bacterial immune system that guides the cleaving of DNA at targeted sites. This discovery opens a new door to genome editing with implications for the green chemistry microbial-based production of advanced biofuels, therapeutic drugs and other valuable chemical products. Also on the discovery team were Emmanuelle Charpentier, Martin Jinek, Krzysztof Chylinski, Ines Fonfara and Michael Hauer. More>
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