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Nobel in chemistry honors 'greener' way to build molecules
Read full article: Nobel in chemistry honors 'greener' way to build moleculesTwo scientists have won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for finding an โingeniousโ and environmentally cleaner way to build molecules that can be used to make a variety of compounds, including medicines and pesticides.
2 scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for gene-editing tool
Read full article: 2 scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for gene-editing toolFrench scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna have won the Nobel Prize 2020 in chemistry for developing a method of genome editing likened to 'molecular scissors' that offer the promise of one day curing genetic diseases. โThere is enormous power in this genetic tool,โ said Claes Gustafsson, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. In 1911, Marie Curie was the sole recipient of the chemistry award, as was Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in 1964. ___Read more stories about Nobel Prizes past and present by The Associated Press at https://www.apnews.com/NobelPrizes___This story was first published Oct. 7, 2020. It was updated on Oct. 8, 2020, to correct the aim of clinical trials that are underway with the gene-editing tool CRISPR.