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Jennifer Doudna

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American biochemist at UC Berkeley, born 1964 in Washington DC and raised in Hilo, Hawaii. Trained as a structural biologist working on RNA, she co-authored the 2012 paper that turned CRISPR into a general-purpose editing tool and shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Charpentier. Since then she has been one of the loudest voices in the field urging caution about human germline editing.

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